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Thomas Fuller (1710-1790) born in Africa in "Negro town" between present day Liberia and Benin was shipped to America as a slave at the age of 14 (1724).                                 Picture from postnewsgroup.com He eventually became legal property of Presley and Elizabeth Cox of Alexandria, Virginia, USA. Both Fuller and the Coxes were illiterates and he was most valued among other slaves owned by The Coxes.  Due to Fuller's extraordinary arithmetic ability, he was also called Virginia calculator, mental calculator. He is also known as Negro Tom. Fuller wasn't predisposed to reading or writing but later in his life, he was discovered by antislavery campaign who used him as a demonstration that blacks are not mentally inferior to whites.                                 Photo from reportghana.com  At 70 years of age, William Hartshorne and Samuel Coates from Pennsylvania while traveling through the slave neighborhood heard of his remarkable

WHEN NEW YORK’S POOR REVOLTED AGAINST THE CITY’S GRAVE-ROBBING MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT. America’s first anatomy riot started with a crass joke. One afternoon in April 1788 a medical student was dissecting a woman’s body in a lab at New York Hospital. Suddenly, he realized he wasn’t alone. A gang of street urchins had gathered at the window outside—gaping wide-eyed at a real-life dead person. This annoyed the student, who wanted to work in peace. So to spook the boys, he reportedly grabbed the cadaver’s arm and waved it at them, hollering, “This is your mother’s arm. I just dug it up!” Har har. Unfortunately, one of the boys had indeed just lost his mother, and he ran home to his father bawling. The father in turn grabbed a shovel and marched out to his late wife’s grave. He found exactly what he expected inside it—nothing—and he was furious. He wasn’t the only one. Hundreds of other New Yorkers were every bit as angry with the hospital’s doctors. Folks were sick and tired of abuse at the

THE BRITISH-IGBO WAR THAT LASTED FOR 31 YEARS (1883-1914).  From libertywritersafrica.com  THE FIERCEST WARRIORS THAT FOUGHT THE BRITISH FOR 31 YEARS:  The British penetration of Nigeria met with various forms of resistance throughout the country. The Ekumeku Movement consisted of a series of uprisings against the rising power of the Royal Niger Company of the British Empire in Anioma, the Igbo subgroup in present day Delta State. The resolutions of the Berlin conference of 1884-1885, gave European nations the rights to lay claim to lands and resources in Africa. Britain, who had engaged in the trade with coastal cities before and during the 19th century, made bold their intentions to covet resources and rule over indigenous nations all over Africa. They came with guns and preachers. Many Africans tribes resisted the British invaders, and this led to protracted wars. Many African tribes put up a great fight against the superior firepower of the suppr

THE HOUSE OF DEATH IN IMO STATE. It is popularly called "the house of death" the house to millions of gods perhaps, in Amaigbo Umu-Anu in imo State. The owner of the building you see in the picture below remains unknown to the villagers, No one lives there, but at the dead of the night the building comes alive with lights and sounds with no signs or traces of electric wires nor cables attached to the building or even the buzzing sound of a power generator. Scariest part is that this building has no door entrance, openings nor pathways, no gates, just a squared fence with no gate to get in. In 2012 a boy called Ebuka Ikechukwu was curious enough to know what the lights and sounds in the house was all about and what was responsible for it, he scaled through the fence and made his way into the building using a window opening, and that was the last people saw of him because he didn’t make it out, he has not been seen even as u read through this piece. It was believed