page_title: List of African-American historic places
section_title: Outline of African-American History
hierarchical_section_title: List of African-American historic places / Outline of African-American History
caption_attribution_description: English: House at John Brown's Farm
context_page_description: The following are a list of African-American historic places.
context_section_description: This outline has been adapted from other related Wikipedia articles and The Negro Pilgrimage in America by C. Eric Lincoln and Before the Mayflower; A History of the Negro in America; 1619-1964 by Lerone Bennett Jr.
  Origins 
  The Negro Pilgrimage in America or the African Past
  The story of the African Americans begins in Africa.  Early histories of Africa considered it the ‘Dark Continent’, both in the sense of the color of its people, but also for its lack of known civilizations.  Studies beginning in the 1960s have found a rich history of civilization, including arts, architecture, public thought and major civilizations.  The story of African Americans builds from these roots and can be traced through historic sites associated with the slave trade in America:
  Charlotte Amalie Historic District – Virgin Islands
  Fairvue - Kentucky
  The Grange
  Kingsley Plantation
  Old Slave Mart – South Carolina
  American Revolution 
  While the term ‘American Revolution’ connotes only the war period (1776–1783), the entire colonial experience is included.  Free Negros were present during early campaigns of the war and throughout the war.  In March 1770, Crispus Attucks died during the protest that has become known as the Boston Massacre.  At the Battle of Bunker Hill, Peter Salem and Salem Poor, two free Negros valiantly served.  Salem Poor was commended for his actions that day.
  Burns United Methodist Church
  Christiansted National Historic Site
  Hacienda Azucarera La Esperanza – Puerto Rico
  Hawikuh
  Slavery
  For over 200 years, the American system of slavery held four million people of color in bondage.  The effect was felt by all the people of the nation, including black, white, yellow, and red.  It was premised on a system of racial supremacy that affected the development of the American Negro and the relationships of all American’s with persons of other races.
  
  The first blacks in the new world did not arrive on the slave ship to Jamestown in 1619.  Rather, it was Pedro Alonzo Niño, navigator on the Niña the smallest of Christopher Columbus's vessels. From that day, Negros participated in nearly every major Spanish exploration in the new world.  Neflo de Olaña and thirty other Negros were with Balboa when they discovered the Pacific Ocean.
  Antioch Missionary Baptist Church – Richard Allen (organized the AME church)
  Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Homesite – Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (1st settler of Chicago)
  Hacienda Azucarera La Esperanza – Puerto Rico
  Hawikuh – Estevanico
  Prince Hall Masonic Temple – Prince Hall (organized 1st Negro Masonic Lodge)
  Slave Revolts and Insurrections 
  
  In the summer of 1791, Haiti witnessed the first successful slave revolt. This was not the first; it was one in a long series of revolts. Between 1663 and 1864, there were 109 revolts on land and another 55 at sea.  Notable early insurrections include the 1712 uprising in New York City and the 1800 attack on Richmond, Virginia.  That same year, Denmark Vesey, a free black, planned to seize Charleston, South Carolina, but was foiled when betrayed.
  Belmont – Virginia
  John Brown Farm – John Brown’s birthplace. - New York
  John Brown House - New York
  John Brown Headquarters – Headquarters for the Harper’s Ferry Raid
  Estate Carolina Sugar Plantation
  Stono River Slave Rebellion – Site of the 1739 Stono Rebellion - South Carolina.
  Abolition crisis.
  
  With the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the United States gained a huge western dominion.  With it, two aspects of American life came into stark comparison.  The first was the expansion of slavery across the southern half of the nation, creating a vast agricultural empire based on a large rural workforce.  The second was Manifest Destiny, the expansion of a free society westward across the continent.  The economic realities in the south precluded the development of a strong abolitionist base, while the lack of slavery among the industrialized north, neither supported nor abhorred the abolitionist cause.  By 1835, William Lloyd Garrison had established The Liberator as the nation’s most militant abolitionist newspaper.  Over the ne
caption: John Brown's Farmhouse, New York
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