How many did you get right without having to look up the answer? Drop your answers in the comments.
1. Which Caribbean Island became the first nation to abolish slavery through a successful, Black-led revolution?
2. Which 1839 revolt aboard a Spanish-owned ship off the coast of Florida led to a landmark Supreme Court case?
3. Which Nigerian author’s 1958 novel “Things Fall Apart” is taught worldwide?
4. Which leader declared the freedom of enslaved people in Venezuela in 1816?
5. Which country does the literary writer of “Omeros” hail from?
Interesting facts:
• With roughly 120 million people of African descent—about 56 percent of its population, Brazil has the largest African diaspora community outside of Africa.
Brito, L. (2025, January 8). Portraits of Black politics and resistance in Brazil. North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA). https://nacla.org/black-politics-resistance-brazil/
• India’s Siddi tribe, with an estimated 150,000 members, are a large Afro-descendant community based in rural areas of Goa, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, and Gujarat. Arun, S. (2022). Siddis in India: the unexplored legacy of Africa’s diaspora. In JOURNAL OF INDIAN HISTORY: Vol. XCIX (pp. 147–159). https://www.jihku.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/8.pdf
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