As the cotton harvest approaches, its success hinges on Bajans’ willingness to unify their economic potential and the historical weight of slavery—and the trauma they carry. The Bajan government, in ...
A few years after the War of 1812, the U.S. government acquired present-day West Tennessee from the Chickasaw Nation. Andrew Jackson represented the U.S. government in this 1818 transaction, which ...
Introduction : cotton, sugar, coffee, and the making of nineteenth-century slave plantations -- Part i. Making landscapes : new Atlantic commodity frontiers -- The lower Mississippi Valley cotton ...
At the time of North Dakota statehood in 1889, a farm owner of over 1,000 acres of rich Red River Valley land had earlier been a slave. William Montgomery, better known as Thornton, had been enslaved ...
Though slavery had such a wide variety of faces, the underlying concepts were always the same. Slaves were considered property, and they were property because they were black. Their status as property ...
PRATTVILLE, Ala. (AP) — There’s no painless way to explain the history of a massive brick structure being renovated into apartments in this central Alabama city — a factory that played a key role in ...
At an antebellum plantation, during Black History Month, over 100 people came to a lecture about slavery on Saturday. “Enslavement in Alachua County” was hosted at Historic Haile Homestead, where ...
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