325 years ago, an African King was killed in the forests of northern Brazil. He remains one of the great symbols of black liberation in the Atlantic World. Portrait of Zumbi dos Palmares by Pedro Celso Cruz de Souza (Source: Wikimedia Commons).
Born today in 1795, Frances 'Fanny' Wright is one of the most remarkable yet least known revolutionaries we’ve ever heard of. Frances 'Fanny' Wright was just as remarkable as famous radicals like Tom Paine and Francisco da Miranda.
In 1935, Mussolini's fascist forces invaded Ethiopia. Sylvia Pankhurst led the international protests which followed, forging a lifelong bond in the process.
It takes a brave person to stand up and back a revolution. Sometimes it takes an even braver one to call out its weaknesses.
Before this year, I'd never heard of the word 'semi-quincentennial'...
The story of Crispus Attucks, the escaped slave who became the first person to die for American independence...
The first person to die for American independence was a mixed-race sailor and escaped slave called Crispus Attucks.
