enslaved
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In early hip-hop and dance music, Mr. Gibbs heard echoes of the shuffling feet and handclaps of a ring shout, the communal spiritual ritual in which enslaved Africans used their own bodies as instruments.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Ben Montgomery, an enslaved man, developed an improved steamship propeller in 1854 but couldn’t patent it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
Others—including York, Clark’s enslaved manservant, and Sacagawea, a kidnapped Shoshone teenager pregnant with the child of the expedition’s interpreter, Charbonneau—did not have a say in the matter.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
History textbooks often include the story of the Underground Railroad, an organized network of secret routes, places and people that guided enslaved populations from the South to abolitionist Northern states.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
“Yes, sugar is the sweetness that comes from Cuba, but she also wanted to remind us of the bitterness felt by Afro-Cubans who were enslaved on the sugarcane plantations.”
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
