When Black Women Used Hair Braids to Escape Slavery

A history lesson in brilliance and resilience

Image: Hair braid expert Project Nayy in Atlanta and Denver

Any student of history knows that Africans were enslaved in more places than just the U.S.

In fact, over the period of 400 years from the 1500s all the way to the early 1900s, 12.5 million Africans were kidnapped and transported to the Americas.