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Launch collection<\/div>

Materias Fundamentales<\/h1>

The Founding Subjects page is the curated launch collection for NFA\u2019s public proof of concept. It must show all 20 subjects, even when a packet or page is still moving toward final publication.<\/p>

20<\/strong>founding subjects<\/span><\/div>
10<\/strong>era structure<\/span><\/div>
6<\/strong>PSWA letters<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>
Why these subjects<\/div>

A launch library for method, not celebrity<\/h2>

The Founding Subjects are selected to demonstrate NFA\u2019s full method: biography, structural history, evidentiary limits, public memory, legal status, revolution, institution building, literary witness, and contemporary interpretation.<\/p><\/section>

Era 2 \u00b7 1400\u20131650<\/div>

01 \u00b7 Mustafa ibn Muhammad \/ Estevanico<\/h3>

A launch subject for early Atlantic movement, forced expeditionary labor, translation, survival, and the problem of fragmentary colonial records.<\/p><\/article>

Era 2 \u00b7 1400\u20131650<\/div>

02 \u00b7 Queen Nzinga<\/h3>

A sovereign strategist for studying diplomacy, war, gendered power, and the pressures of Atlantic imperial expansion.<\/p><\/article>

Era 3 \u00b7 1650\u20131775<\/div>

03 \u00b7 Elizabeth Key Grinstead<\/h3>

A legal subject for examining status, inheritance, race-making, gender, baptism, and freedom litigation.<\/p><\/article>

Era 3 \u00b7 1650\u20131775<\/div>

04 \u00b7 Queen Nanny<\/h3>

A Maroon leader for studying sovereignty, terrain, resistance, and the limits of plantation power.<\/p><\/article>

Era 4 \u00b7 1775\u20131820<\/div>

05 \u00b7 Toussaint Louverture<\/h3>

A revolutionary strategist for analyzing emancipation, statecraft, military power, and Atlantic political crisis.<\/p><\/article>

Era 4 \u00b7 1775\u20131820<\/div>

06 \u00b7 King Ghezo<\/h3>

A West African ruler for studying sovereignty, commerce, militarization, and the contradictions of abolition-era diplomacy.<\/p><\/article>

Era 5 \u00b7 1820\u20131860<\/div>

07 \u00b7 Frederick Douglass<\/h3>

A writer, orator, and political actor for studying self-emancipation, print, citizenship, and public argument.<\/p><\/article>

Era 5 \u00b7 1820\u20131860<\/div>

08 \u00b7 Harriet Tubman<\/h3>

A liberation strategist for studying mobility, networks, intelligence, war, and disciplined action under threat.<\/p><\/article>

Era 7 \u00b7 1877\u20131930<\/div>

09 \u00b7 W. E. B. Du Bois<\/h3>

A scholar and theorist for studying data, sociology, global Black politics, and historical interpretation.<\/p><\/article>

Era 7 \u00b7 1877\u20131930<\/div>

10 \u00b7 Mary McLeod Bethune<\/h3>

An institution builder for studying education, civic power, women\u2019s leadership, and public administration.<\/p><\/article>

Era 8 \u00b7 1930\u20131955<\/div>

11 \u00b7 Pauli Murray<\/h3>

A legal thinker and writer for studying civil rights, constitutional argument, gender, faith, and institutional exclusion.<\/p><\/article>

Era 8\/9 \u00b7 1930\u20131980<\/div>

12 \u00b7 James Baldwin<\/h3>

A writer and critic for studying witness, moral language, nationhood, identity, and historical evasion.<\/p><\/article>

Era 8\/9 \u00b7 1930\u20131980<\/div>

13 \u00b7 Toni Morrison<\/h3>

A novelist and editor for studying memory, narrative structure, language, canon formation, and historical imagination.<\/p><\/article>

Era 10 \u00b7 1980\u2013Present<\/div>

14 \u00b7 Clarence Thomas<\/h3>

A contemporary legal subject for studying constitutional interpretation, institutional power, ideology, and public controversy.<\/p><\/article>

Palmares \u00b7 1600s\u20131694<\/div>

15 \u00b7 Zumbi dos Palmares<\/h3>

A Palmares subject for studying maroon sovereignty, colonial war, public memory, and contested evidence.<\/p><\/article>

Palmares \u00b7 1600s\u20131694<\/div>

16 \u00b7 Dandara dos Palmares<\/h3>

A public-memory subject for studying gendered remembrance, evidentiary limits, and how NFA marks disputed claims.<\/p><\/article>

c.1580\u20131621<\/div>

17 \u00b7 Benkos Bioh\u00f3<\/h3>

A founder of Palenque San Basilio for studying marronage, treaty politics, and community survival.<\/p><\/article>

Cuba \u00b7 1843\u20131844<\/div>

18 \u00b7 Carlota Lucum\u00ed<\/h3>

A rebellion subject for studying plantation violence, Afro-Cuban resistance, and archival limits.<\/p><\/article>

Haitian Revolution<\/div>

19 \u00b7 Sanit\u00e9 B\u00e9lair<\/h3>

A revolutionary subject for studying women, war, public memory, and evidence-safe representation.<\/p><\/article>

Atlantic World<\/div>

20 \u00b7 Olaudah Equiano<\/h3>

A writer and abolition subject for studying autobiography, disputed birthplace evidence, print, commerce, and testimony.<\/p><\/article><\/div>