Lamine Senghor, The Negro’s Fight for Freedom 1927
Lamine Senghor was an influential figure in the early Senegalese nationalist movement. Born in Kaolack, Senegal, in 1889, he served in the French Army from 1915 to 1919 before returning to Paris…
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John Williamson Kuyé, Right of the People to Self-Determination 1926
John Williamson Kuyé was a prominent advocate for African self-rule in the early 20th century, emerging as one of the first wave of African nationalists. Born on November 10, 1894, in Bathurst,…
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John Sella Martin, A Speech Before the Paris Antislavery Conference 1867
John Sella Martin was born into slavery in Charlotte, North Carolina, and was later transported to Georgia, from where he successfully escaped to the North in 1856. After his escape, Martin settled…
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Isaka Seme, The Regeneration of Africa 1906
Pixley Isaka Seme was a pioneering figure in the fight against European colonialism in Africa, being one of the first western-educated Africans to take a stand against the oppressive forces reshaping the…
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Frederick Douglass, The Constitution of the United States: Is It Pro-Slavery or Anti-slavery? 1860
In a powerful speech delivered to the Scottish Anti-Slavery Society in Glasgow on March 26, 1860, Frederick Douglass articulated his perspectives on the American Constitution and its implications for the fight against…
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Charles Lenox Remond: Slavery As It Concerns The British
Born in 1810 and died in 1878 Charles Lenox Remond was a pioneering black abolitionist speaker. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, to free black parents, John and Nancy Remond. In 1838,…
