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It’s also a story of “bravery, friendship and never forgetting who you were,” reads Emmanuel Nkuranga, the author of the tale ...
The Marriage of Washington to Martha Custis • The Washinton Family • Washington's Letter to Robert Morris Though only 25% of the colonial population owned slaves, slavery factored heavily in ...
The shift from indentured servitude to racial slavery in the British colonies is evident in the development of the colonies' laws. • Virginia, 1639: The first law to exclude "Negroes" from ...
Was Key pursuing a grudge by describing, or misdescribing, the Corps of Colonial Marines as slaves? Or did he have the (predominantly white) conscripts in mind? Some soldiers on the British side ...
Slavery treated these people as forms of property ... In the early 1930s, the anti-colonial historian, C.L.R. James, wrote a play about the 1791 Haitian Revolution and its leader, Toussaint ...