A Solution to Slavery or Racist Expulsion?
The American Colonization Society, 1816-1860 Speaking in the hall of the House of Representatives on January 20, 1827, Whig Party co-founder and Secretary of State...
Category : History
Prince Henry the Navigator
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Henry the Navigator, Portuguese Henrique o Navegador, byname of Henrique, infante (prince) de Portugal, duque (duke) de Viseu, senhor (lord) da Covilhã, (born March 4,...
Martha Washington
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Martha Washington married a wealthy plantation owner before becoming a widow and inheriting his estate. She wed Colonel George Washington in 1759 and became the...
The Massive, Overlooked Role of Female Slave Owners
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It’s estimated that 40 percent of slave owners may have been white women Most Americans know that George Washington owned enslaved people at his Mount...
Albert Boutwell
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During the Birmingham Campaign of 1963, Martin Luther King addressed Mayor Albert Boutwell in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” writing that he hoped the Birmingham...
William B. Gould
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William B. Gould was born into slavery in Wilmington, N.C. in 1837. During the Civil War, Gould escaped with seven others on September 21, 1862,...
SÃO TOMÉ ISLAND
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São Tomé, an African plantation society, and slave trading post lies in the Gulf of Guinea. First discovered around 1470, São Tomé was not officially...
Where did American slavery come from?
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Sweeping questions like that rarely yield clear answers, least of all from nuance-loving historians like me. In my classes, I point carefully to Classical, Christian,...