FREEDMEN  UNIVERSITY

Lineage  Heritage  Delineation

 

Freedmen University

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 

To facilitate our AIM Freedmen University has:

  1. Provided Information on Various Historical Categories of American Freedmen Greatness in One Place for you to Research. 
  2. Elected Black Diamond Associates as an Official "Quality of Life Resource" for The American Freedmen.
  3. Adopted The Freedmen News Journal as a Voice for The American Freedmen. 
  4. With More Resources to Come...

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Freedmen University Wants YOU to Continue The Legacy of  The American Freedmen So that WE may Create More:

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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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