FREEDMEN UNIVERSITY
Lineage Heritage Delineation
AIM: To Educate, Enlighten, and Empower American Freedmen by Providing Knowledge, Information, and Resources.
Freedmen: A term often used historically to describe formerly enslaved people {Black Americans} particularly during and after the Civil War in the United States.
Historically the term has also been associated with:
The Freedmen's Bureau: A government agency established to assist formerly enslaved people {Black Americans} during Reconstruction.
The Freedmen's Bank: A private savings bank chartered by the U.S. Congress, to collect deposits from the newly emancipated communities.
The History and Culture of The American Freedmen has been one of Resistance.
- Resistance to Injustice
- Resistance to Tyranny
- Resistance to Limitations
This Culture of Resistance has Lead to the Creation of:
- Great Statesmen
- Great Inventors
- Great Musicians
- Great Teachers
- Great Artist
- Great Warriors
- Great Authors
- Great Creators
and More...
To facilitate our AIM Freedmen University has:
- Provided Information on Various Historical Categories of American Freedmen Greatness in One Place for you to Research.
- Elected Black Diamond Associates as an Official "Quality of Life Resource" for The American Freedmen.
- Adopted The Freedmen News Journal as a Voice for The American Freedmen.
- With More Resources to Come...
OUR ANCESTORS
OUR LABOR
OUR SERVICE
BUILT THIS NATION
Freedmen University Wants YOU to Continue The Legacy of The American Freedmen So that WE may Create More:
Highway Robbery:
The Freedmens Bank Tragedy
1865-1874
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Ancestral Descendants of Foundational Black American Freedmen whose Lineage trace as far back as the Woodland Period {1000 BCE} of America.
The Descendants of this "Indigenous Negro American Culture" include the:
1. Alabama
2. Apalachee
3. Arikara
4. Caddo
5. Chickasaw
6. Catawba
7. Choctaw
8. Muscogee
9. Creek
10. Guale
11. Hitchiti
12. Ho-Chunk
13. Houma
14. Iowa
15. Kansa
16. Koroas
17. Missouria
18. Mobilian
19. Natchez
20. Omaha
21. Osage
22. Otoe
23. Pawnee
24. Ponca
25. Quapaw
26. Seminole
27. Taensas
28. Tunicas
29. Yamasee
30. Yazoos
31. Yuchi
These were the Builders of the Structures & Buildings with the Faces, Animals & Symbols, that are in America, that colonizers claim was all "Built/Founded" in the 1800s.
Events in America that Affected FBA Freedmen
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1526: San Miguel de Gual-da-pe.
1712: New York Slave Revolt.
1730: Chesapeake Rebellion.
1739: Stono Rebellion Charleston S.C.
1740: The Negro Act.
1774: The Continental Congress Created.
1775-1783: The Revolutionary War
1776: The Declaration of Independence was Signed.
1777: The Articles of Confederation Created.
1786: Treaty of Peace & Friendship.
1786: Tignon Laws.
1787: The U.S. Constitution was Written.
1790: Sundry Free Moors Act.
1790: First US Census. Copper Colored Americans listed as "Free People" or "Indian"
1790: The Patent Act was Signed.
1800: Gabriel Prosser Rebellion.
1801-1805: First Barbary War.
1805: Great Fire of Detroit
1811: German Coast Uprising.
1812-1815: Revolutionary War.
1814: Battle at Horseshoe Bend.
1815-1816: Second Barbary War.
1816: Battle of Negro Fort.
1816: American Colonization Society (ACS): Tried to Trick FBA Freedmen into believing they were from Africa and created a country for them to go to.
1818: Battle of Suwanee.
1820: Great Savannah Fire (Georgia)
1822: Denmark Vesey Rebellion.
1822: Liberia established the country ACS Created.
1828: Webster's dictionary defines "American" as "a Native of America" originally applying to Copper Color Races.
1830: Indian Removal Act forces indigenous people off their land.
1831: Nat Turner Rebellion
1835: Great Fire of New York
1835: The Dade Massacre.
1835: The Battles of Withlacoochee River.
1837: The Battle of Lake Okeechobee.
1845: Great New York City Fire
1850 -1880: Census Records reclassified Native Americans as "Mulatto" or "Colored"
1852/1854: Boston Fires
1861-1865: Civil War.
1862: The Homestead Act. Over 169 Million acres of land taken from Freedmen & given to white immigrants.
1864: Great Boston Herald Fire
1865: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln who Negotiated Special Field Orders No. 15 (40 acres & mule).
1865-1869: President Andrew Johnson struck down the negotiation & enacted The Freedmens Bank.
1865: U.S. Congress Freedmens Bank.
1871: The "Night America Burned
1874: Congress Shutdown the Bank. White Supremacist stole the equivalent of $1.3 Billion from FBA Freedmen.
1881: Thumb Fire (Michigan)
1886: American Federation of Labor {AFL} created by Samuel Gompers. (white only union jobs)
1886-1960: 100 Years of Lynching. {Newspaper Accounts}
1887: Dawes Act Allows white settlers to pay for indigenous status ($5 Indian)
1889: Great Seattle Fire
1889: Santiago Canyon Fire (California)
1893 - 1914: Dawes Rolls Complete the reclassification of many indigenous people as "Negro".
1894: Great Hinckley Fire (Minnesota)
1920: The Great Depression.
1944: The G.I. Bill.
1956: Federal Highway Act.
1962: Migration & Refugee Assistance Act.
1965: Immigration & Nationality Act.
1966: Black Panther Party.
1980: Refugee Act.
1990: The Diversity Immigrant Visa program, aka The Green Card Lottery.
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