A brief History of the African American Experience

A) Home of the prestigious Koranic Sankore University and other madras's, Timbuktu was an intellectual and spiritual capital and a center for the propagation of Islam throughout Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries. Timbuktu is located on the on the southern edge of the Sahara, about 8 mi (13 km) north of the Niger River. In the 14th century Timbuktu became the focal point for the gold-salt trade. During the height of Timbuktu's history it became a gathering place for Muslims scholars and Moroccan traders who traded slaves and gold for the clothes and horses of other lands.
B) The Liberator was an anti-enslavement paper published by abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. This weekly newspaper was in print for more than three decades, from its first issue in 1831 till the end of the Civil War in 1865. In his paper Garrison openly advocated for the immediate emancipation of all slaves. …