1655 On May - 10 jamaica captured by English 1676 Bacon's Rebellion, frontiersmen vs Virginia Government begins on this day in history. 1676 Bacon's Rebellion, frontiersmen vs Virginia govt begins on May - 10. 1697 Jean Marie I'aine Leclair, composer on this day in history. 1705 Ga...
Set in the 1700’s,Anne Bonnyis a real character, though much about her is legendary and not easily verifiable.Nuala O’Connorhas familiarised herself with facts and read the fictions and re-imagined a version of a deeply unconventional life for Anny Bonny, told in a lilting, of its era ...
Mary and her children were ‘very sickly the whole winter’ after they arrived in Quebec. John Munro declared the children recovered. But, he wrote, “Mrs. Munro never will.” Twenty years after her ordeal, her youngest son William wrote to his father. “For Gods sake keep a good store...
Without photographs or film, they had to bring home to the British people the suffering, stench and misery endured by shackled slaves crossing the Atlantic, and to make them hear the weeping of the families separated and sold in the slave markets of Barbados and Jamaica.For these campaigners ...
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At four years old, Lucretia Mott saw aBritish abolitionist’s diagram of the 482 slaves packed aboard theBrookeon their voyage from Africa to Jamaica. She told her children and grandchildren about it. She also renounced the use of products made by slaves, such as calico, sugar, rice and in...
The term “cold war” originates in George Orwell’s 1945 essay, “You and the Atomic Bomb”. It was first used to describe the geopolitical confrontation between the USSR and the US in a 1947 speech by Bernard Baruch, an influential Democratic presidential advisor. Experts place the official...
(1865) in Jamaica, theOpium Wars(1839–42, 1856–60) in China, and the Taranaki War (1860–61) in New Zealand. India became central to imperial status and wealth. There was significant migration to the settler colonies ofAustraliaandNew Zealandand later toCanadaandSouth Africa. From 1870 ...