Scipio Africanus

In St Mary's churchyard in Henbury, near Bristol, is the grave of an enslaved eighteen year old African, who was named Scipio Africanus by his owners - he was born into the household of the Earl of Suffolk. The original Scipio was a Roman general who won victories against the Carthaginians.
He died in 1720, and the two gravestones that mark his grave are beautifully decorated, brightly painted and with black cherubs. That is, they were beautiful, until someone came along and smashed them a few days ago. A message was left in chalk nearby: "Look at what you made me do. Put Colston's statue back or things will really heat up."
So there seems to be no doubt that the vandal who smashed the headstones is a supporter of Edward Colston the slave trader, whose statue was toppled during the recent protests in Bristol. The statue has since been fished out of the river, and will be installed in a local museum, along with placards from the protest.
An archaeologist, Richard Osgood, set up a JustGiving page to raise £1,000 towards repairing Scipio Africanus' grave, and has actually raised more than £3,400.

The inscription on the footstone reads:

I who was Born a PAGAN and a SLAVE
Now Sweetly Sleep a CHRISTIAN in my Grave
What tho' my hue was dark my SAVIORS sight
Shall Change this darkness into radiant light
Such grace to me my Lord on earth has given
To recommend me to my Lord in heaven
Whose glorious second coming here I wait
With saints and Angels Him to celebrate

Women Warriors: La Mulâtresse Solitude

This is Solitude. Her mother was brought from Africa, possibly Sierra Leone, and she was born in Guadeloupe in around 1772 as the result of her mother's rape on the slave ship. I've found several different accounts of her life, but most of them seem to agree on this.
In 1794, the French abolished slavery in their colonies after the Haitian slave revolt, and she joined the Maroon community of La Goyave on Guadeloupe. This was a group of free Africans, from the French word meaning "fugitive".
In 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte re-enstated the institution of slavery in the French colonies. Solitude and her followers from the Maroon community joined Louis Delgrès, who had been a military officer in the Revolutionary Army, to fight for freedom. Their last battle against the French Napoleonic Army was on 28th May at Matouba, where the remaining freedom fighters ignited their gunpowder supplies, committing suicide while taking as many of the French with them as they could.
Solitude survived the battle. She was pregnant at the time, so was imprisoned by the French until she had her baby. In November 1802, a day after she had given birth, she was hanged.
Slavery was finally abolished on the island in 1848.
Solitude is now remembered as a heroine on Guadeloupe.