Actual freedom for the enslaved would come years later, after unpaid “apprenticeships,” while the slaveholders would be generously compensated at British taxpayers’ expense for their “loss of property.”ġ842 Lombard Street Riot, Philadelphia: “ Here on August 1, 1842, an angry mob of whites attacked a parade celebrating Jamaican Emancipation Day.

The US suffered 5 dead.ġ834 Abolition of slavery in British dominions. Note: the abbreviation “TLC” denotes cases documented in “The Lynching Calendar” website.ġ 1832 Battle of Bad Axe: Soldiers under General Henry Atkinson, armed volunteers and Dakota Sioux killed around 150 Indian men, women and children near present-day Victory, Wisconsin. Known as BLACK AUGUST, both for the number of notable historical events associated with African American history and for the Black August movement which originated in the California prison system, within or related to which several of events below occurred. An excerpt from The African World Calendar Project

History of blackhead signpost road