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The Times of Israel on MSN9d
How a 19th-century British Jew became a Zulu chieftain and slaveholding warlord
In new book 'The Jew Who Would Be King,' historian Adam Rovner tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, who survived a shipwreck ...
The Associated Press on MSN14d
Descendants of slave owners and enslaved people in the Caribbean call for reparations at the UN
The great-great grandson of 19th-century British prime minister William Gladstone says he “shocked and horrified” to learn about seven years ago that his ancestors were slave owners in Jamaica and Guy ...
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Slavery and the history of the collections we care for
Explore research into how our history and collections are connected to the transatlantic slave trade. Many museums in the UK have legacies that are rooted in colonialism. In the nineteenth century, ...
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The Challenges Of Finding And Being An African-American Physician In Nineteenth-Century America
What is one to make of the career of Dr. Joseph Dennis Harris, which once soared far beyond the strictures of race and class ...
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The Surprising History of the Infographic
Wellcome Library, London In mid-19th-century America, one of the biggest social issues was slavery. And it was slavery that propelled some of the country’s most remarkable data visualizations ...
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JD Vance draws inspiration from a 19th century pro-slavery tyrant | Opinion
President Jackson, a champion of slavery and states’ rights, ignored the Supreme Court’s ruling, and instead endorsed the Trail of Tears, a forced march to Oklahoma during which thousands of ...
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Social Change and Racial Inequalities in the Post-Slavery Plantation Societies 19th – 21st century
This project aims at examining the circulation and the implementation of a common post-slavery pattern as the key and masterpiece which has enabled the pervasiveness of the socio-racial inequalities ...