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2 -A r
y of fail in io ,'lUrks
nd P ians finally ucceed in
ov rrunning Kemit nd from
800 BC ArB invade t coast
to capture Africans for Arab
81 T de.
332 BC - G k armi loot
librari of tempi nd lod of
Kemit, now called Egypt, and
Ari totle s Is whole libraries,
d troying what he can't under-
tand when Alexander conquers
Egypt.
1 1 - 12 Africans are cap­
tured and carried to Lisbon to
please Prince Henry of Portugal.
1453 - Prince Henry begins
a war against African people
with the ble sings of Pope
Eugene IV, who gives "complete
forgiven of all their sins" for
all who would engage in further
raids and conquest.
1501 - The Spanish Throne,
Queen Isabella, issues its initial
proclamation on laws for the ex­
port of slaves to America.
1502 - Portuguese fleet
shells Swahili seaside City
States.
1526 - Europeans wage war
against Afrikans and enslave
prisoners to work in Brazil.
1565 - Europeans invade
the Western Hemisphere.
1607 - Portuguese ship
br ings 20 Afrikans to
Jamestown, Va., as indentured
servants. .
15th/16th Centurie
Catholic Church receives $25
per head for captured Africans
in the Holoceust ot'Ens1avement
(Slave Trade) by Asiento Treaty
while rich (Christian and Jew-
. ish) merchants profit from their
ownership of the slave ships. An
estimate of 200 million Africans
are lost to this unholy trade(Ifi-
20 million killed at Goree Island,
alone).
1669 -- Three slave ships
from Barbados enter Char­
leston, S.C. to exchange infor­
mation on successful plantation
enslavement techniques.
1730-1830 - Charleston's
"Golden Age". Thirty percent
(30%) of all slaves come through
Sullivan Is. isolation station's
"Pest Homes".
1738 - Jamaica Maroon
Treaty, is signed because Brit­
ain is losing too many men.
1767 - The Duke of York
Incident, Africans throw them­
selves into the ocean rather than
be enslaved. More than 300 old
Calabar people are killed or en­
slaved in the course of the raid.
1770 - Afrikans comprise
40% of population in Maryland
and Virginia.
1776 - U.S.A. is created out
of 13 colonies, after Ben Frank­
lin returns from British parlia­
ment with information that
Britain plans to abolish slavery
in its coloni . Africans fight on
both sides during Revolutionary
War after being promised their
freedom first by Britain and then
by the Colonialists.
1783 - Free Afrikans are
taken to Nova Scotia by British
as property when required by
Colonialists to account for them
in "I� sp ion List of Negroes."
1790 -Now the 757,181 Af­
rikans comprise 19.3% of U.S.
population.
1791-1803 - The Haitian
Revolution, c the first roc­
ogniz African nation in the
W rn H misphere.
1792 - Fifteen Afr ikan
hips leav Nova Scotia for
home in Sierra Leone.
1800 - Gabriel Prosser leads
revolt in Virginia.
1803 - The Louisiana "Pur­
chase" does not include some
thr million acre of Louisiana,
Arkansas and M' . ippi that
belongs to Afrikans alr dy. e -
tIed there when Spain sold the
territory to Fr n ,and so it
could not be 1 gally tr nsferred
to the U .. A., but arrogant por-

tioning, ,nd unauthorized
d lopm nt claim ion.
1807 - Federal Act prohibi
the importation ofSla to U.S.
1807-1860 - Over 250,000
Afrika re transported ille-
gally to, sold and enslaved in th
U.S.
1815 - Paul Cuffy to
Afrika.
1817 - American Coloniza­
tion Society (ACS) i formed to
get Blacks to leave U.S., but over
3,000 ist becau they. sus­
pect ACS of taking advantage
and controlling the never ceas­
ing desire of Afrikans to fight for
some ort of disengagement
from U.S. racism and a place
away from the "black laws" in
the tates.
re forbidden by law to remain
in Old Dominion (Dixie).
1846 -July 9th Con
ced all Virginia portion of th
Capital' Ten Square mile D' -
trict to Virginia. F Blac
are given two y to get out of
Alexandria, Va. - White t­
tiers in Mercer County, Ohio re­
f to turn over 3,200 a of
land in Carthagena purchased
for freed la by will from
Roanoke, Va. plantation wh n
the family, who couldn't all
that property walking away,
pro ted will for 13 years. Vir­
ginia law sta that a slave
freed remaining in the state 90
days after manumission, can be
sold back into slavery.
1848 - Supreme Court de-
�ec:�a'ry of W r.
1 - Jan. 16th, Gen. Will.
T. Sh rm n' Fi Id Ord r 15
reI 7,600. mil in a 30
mile wide tract of land longth
co t tretching from Char­
I ton, SC to th St. John' Ri
south of Jacksonville, Florida,
which includ all th islan
along that co tline. It I 0
guarantees U.S. Military protec­
tion to the freedmen nd their
families, who ive 40 a of
land plus pro . io (including
mul ,hors and food tuffs)
and protection to last until they
can protect themsel
1886 - Afrikans petition for
Federal Aid to protect them from
the terrorizing that continu
since the 1863 Emancipation

"A Negro hung alive by the Ribs to a Gallows" Engraving by William Blake after a drawing by John
Gabriel Stedman. based on 1773 eyewitness de cription confirmed by a econd eyewitness Not
long ago. "I awa Black man hanged alive by the ribs, between which with a knife was fir t made
an incision, and then cltnch'd an Iron hook with a Cham -In this manner he kept living three days
while hanging with his head and feet downwards and catching with hi tongue the drops of water
(it being the rainy sea on) that were flowing down his bloated breast while the vulture were picking
In the putrid wound" (Stedman 1988:103-5).
1822 - Denmark Vesey
leads South Carolina rebellion.
1827 - Walker's Appeal, and
fiv Nation 1 Conventions are
held r : Which dire ion Afri­
kans should take in le ving­
North to Canada, South to Ja­
maica's Maroon settlement ,
other West Indies islands, West
to opening rritorie or East
Home to Afrika, .
1 29 - N.C. Supreme Court
Judge Ruffin declares that the
"Power of Master is Ab olute".
Blacks hav no righ which the
whi man is obli to honor.
1830 - ew Je y Afrikan
"Fr dmen" petition for relief
from the terror of inhuman
tr tment.
1 2 - Pennsylvania nd
Loui iana Afrikans ask perm -
sion to migrat to any oth r p, rt
ofth U ..
1
clares the 2,961,983.5 acres
"Neutral Strip" of Louisiana
Purchas not part of U.S. in U.S.
vs. Henry Turner's heirs.
1 55 - Berlin Conf renee
partitions Afrika into European
Coloni .
1859 - borne Anderson
and othe in Virginia with John
Brown fight and give their liv
to iz land and tablish new
Afrikan States.
1 60 - Thomas Hodgkins
propos formation of Afrikan
Assoc. to promote worldwide in­
ter t in our' relationship with
Europeans.
1 1 - Charles Sumner,
n. from . and Th ddeu
Stevens, Congre man from
P nn. introduce the first of ev­
eral a demanding reparations
during the Lincoln Adm., some
of which en ble land confiscated
from form r Slav Owners to be
r istributed among ex-sla
Support and authorization also
com from th Bureau ofR fu-
" th Fr om and Aban-
doned Land Act, and the
Proclamation. '- Freeman's Bu­
reau is founded; Today, $56 mil­
lion is still unspent and possibly
petitionabl .
1 7 - U.S. purch es
Alaska and the Pribilof AI uta
from Russia which h nslaved
Attu I landers imperial s rfs
of the Czar on th home nd
breeding ground of 1.5 million
eals. U .. Fi h nd Wildlif
Service rna na the Aleu c: nd
k p h mala v for th n­
nual I harv t, nd forbids
th m to work or fi h for th m­
elve for h n xt hundr d
Andr w
th s v r I
in land on
"Sherman's rv tion" which
had been t up by Tunis Gulic
Campbell, a N w Jersey native
born of free Afrikan, as the first
Afrik n' Am ric n r publi in
h 0- 11 w World. Th
rescinding is don p rt of n
agreem nt 0 bring G orgia
back into h Union.
1 73 - Pu rto Ri '
Ind nden
187 - Blac
v ry h rbor b c u
Blac -Code la of uthern
ta ,and d lop ix coloni
in Ka hile 500 Blac y
nd ny to reh
th uth' extermination pro-
gram.
1 - Cuba gain inde-
penden
1889·1922 - Over 6,000
hangin bumin by vage,
b rbaric mutilation called
lynchings of Afrlkans in Am r­
ica, 83 of whom were women.
1891 - Texas Farmer Assoc.
petitions for Oklahoma as an
All-Afrikan State.
18 - First Pension Bill
(Reparations) for 100-500 (de­
pending on age) plus 4-15.00
per month pension, a total of
400 million.
1898 - HB-8479 is ubmit­
ted by white Rep., Charles Cur­
tis, for pension for Afrikans.
Thi same year, Afrikans pay
$.25 to join, .10 per year to the
National Ex-Slave Mutual Re­
lief, Bounty and Pension Assoc.
(NEMRBPA) of U.S., an organi­
zation created by them.
1901 - By this time all Afri­
kan states, except Ethiopia and
Liberia have been defeated by
cannon and maxim machine
guns, but Angola, Guinea-Bis­
sau and Mozambique never
cease the truggle.
1902 - The last of seven
more bills is submitted for Repa-
tio ,non of' which out of
committee. - Five court cases
against NEMRBPA for mail
fraud, jury acquits them, Judge
overridesjury, and sentences all
of the Association's officials to
long jail terms.
1910 - Blacks have acquired
ownership of 16 million acres of
land in the south and midwest
U.S.
1914 - UNIA/ACL is
founded by the Hon. Marcus M.
Garvey.
1918-1921 - Whites gather
in 'picnic and festival style' to
watch a total of28 Africans burn
at the stake.
1919 - Marks the end of the
NEMRBPA (a uccessful "neu­
tralization" by this racist gov­
ernment that forms the attack
on Marcus Garvey leading to his
subsequent imprisonment).
1920 - There are now one
million (1,000,000) Black family
farm rs ..
1930 - The UNINACL signs
up one million for Reparation
and Repatriation.
1935 - The first Black
Democrat in Congress since
1870. No Black voting Republi-
n in Congr until 1987.
1942 - Nation of I lam peti­
tions for the 49 h ta for Afri­
kans. - 881 Al u a oro red
to abandoned Ala ka n mine
and canneries during World
War II, half of them f ze to
death.
1945 - Balance of Aleuts re­
turn to the destroyed communi­
ti on Pribilof Is. that were
ravaged by Marines. during the
Aleuts' internm nt.
1966 - Pribilof Aleu are
given freedom of h by th
Fur Seal Act.
19 - u n Mother Moore
p titions th U. . for Repara­
ions for Afrikan in Am ri .
197 - Pribilof Al u r
giv n right to vo nd own th ir
own hom .
1 - Ottaw of Michigan
w rded 32 million for 1885
ty.
1 7 - Th ational C
tion of Blacks for Reparatio
Am ric t Inc. (N'Cobr )
formed.
1 - Canada a "In-
dians" nd E kim 260,000 q.
mil along the Arctic Ocean. -
U.S. awards 20,000 ch to
J apane e interned in 1942
camp , with n apology; and
12,500 ch to Pribilof Aleuts +
5 million for 1942 burglary,
1.4 million for the d truction
of their religious property, and
15 million to ttle elsewhere,
since their original homeland,
Attu I land was made into a
Wild Life Sanctuary, and return
is impossible, but no apology is
given. Now with this done,
America finally ign the Geno­
cide Convention.
1990 - N'COBRA oonven
its Fir t National REPARA­
TIONS Conference in W.D.C. -
Of the 22,954 Black farmers left
on family farms, only 175 of
them are under 25 years of age,
average age of fanners is 60
years old. U.S. dispenses repa­
rations to those Japanese born
before June 30, 1920 and the
Pribilof Aleuts. - In May, Ver­
diacee Gosten, of Quachita, LA,
whose Great, great, great grand­
father, Henry Turner had won
the case for the "Neutral Strip"
files for return of her land.
1991 - N'COBRA holds it
Second National Reparations
Conference in Cl veland, Ohio.
1992 - N'COBRA holds its
Third National REPARATIONS
Conference and HOLOCAUST
MEMORIAL in Charleston, S.C .
on Juneteenth while - Ver­
diacee Turner Goston convenes
a National Convention of the
Washitaw (meaning Black
. Land) Nation in Monroe, Louisi­
ana, to highlight and show the
world the historical and legal
documentation to support her
claim to the almost three (3) mil­
lion acres owned by her Afrikan
ancestors and excluded in the
Louisiana 'Purchase', - Black
farmers are losing land at the
rate of9,615 acres per week.­
State terrorist attacks on Afri­
kans continue in "low intensity
war forms" such as: the "Vi<r.
lence Initiative" against young
children, the "War of Drugs"
against teenagers, "Weed and
Seed", the LA. murder of La­
tisha Harlan, the Rodney King­
like attacks on Black adult
males by police around the coun­
try and the "suicides" in Misc.
jail cells.
1992 - October 9-12th, The
African Holocaust Committee of
TAUI KHUTI holds its First An­
nual Sed F tival Jubilee Com­
memoration, in Los Angeles,
California in memory of the lives
of our African An tors who
perished in the holocaust of en­
slavement and a bibliography of
70 scholarly references.
1993 - April 27 -29th, The
Group of Eminent Persons on
Reparations to Africa and Afri­
cans in the Diaspora, O.A.U.,
holds the First Pan-African Con­
ference of Reparations in Ahuja,
igeria.
1993 -June 11-13th, N'CO­
BRA conv n its Fourth An­
nual Repar tiona Conference in
Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
D rled rnfj rmation on any of tM 74
it ted rial ron be OOtal.ll.M by' 'tMr
ntacun ur local library, ur local
A{ncoJ'l Herit group, your l ul N' D-
BRA chapter or affiliau, tM LLbrary of
Oflg or by writilt or calling the
nRA National Of(lu luUd below.
THE TIONAL OALI-
TI FBLA KSF RREPA-
RATI I AMERICA:
P.O.Box 62622�Wa hington,
D.C., 20029-2622 (202) 635-
6272.

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