The 365 Black History serious is designed to give our community a chance to learn and appreciate the achievement, struggles and experience of our ancestors, inventors, business people, scientific, educators, children and more.
On May 20th in Black History
1704 – Elias Neau founds school for slaves in New York.
1743 – Touissant L’Ouverture, born
François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture (20 May 1743 – 7 April 1803), also known as Toussaint L’Ouverture or Toussaint Bréda, was the best-known leader of the Haitian Revolution.[6] His military and political acumen saved the gains of the first Black insurrection in November 1791.
He first fought for the Spanish against the French; then for France against Spain and Britain; and finally, for San Domingue’s colonial sovereignty against Napoleonic France.
He then helped transform the insurgency into a revolutionary movement, which by 1800 had turned San Domingue, the most prosperous slave colony of the time, into the first free colonial society to have explicitly rejected race as the basis of social ranking.
Source: Wikipedia
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Our history has a long, glorious and bright light that has shown since the dawn of time. However, it has long been hidden from us as if we were blind.
Now is the time to come together and consciously grow our understanding of our ancestors, culture, history and place in this world. The only way we can do this tie the knot of our past with our present to create the future we all desire.
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