How did indentured servitude affect slavery in the colonies? What impact did the slave trade have on Europe? How did the Atlantic slave trade affect Africa? How did slavery affect African-American culture? What was the impact of the Atlantic slave trade? How did British economic policies impact...
SLAVE NATION: How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution.Reviews the book "Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution," by Alfred W. Blumrosen and Ruth G. Blumrosen.EBSCO_bspPublishers Weekly...
How did the Jamestown settlers avoid starvation? How did the Mayflower Compact help the Pilgrims survive? How did mercantilism lead to the American colonies' dissent? How did the colonists attempt to reconcile with England in 1775? How did the Iroquois Constitution influenced the Declaration of Ind...
1700s: The transatlantic slave trade brought thousands of Africans to the American colonies, and slavery became an integral part of the colonial economy, particularly in the southern colonies where plantation agriculture was dominant. Was slavery included in the US Constitution? Yes, slavery was impli...
in the case of expatriates from ex-colonies in ex-colonizer countries, representations of colonial history influence how people narrate, interpret, and act in response to their experiences in the host country. As such, expatriates might develop the knowledge of the host country (cognitive adjustment...
A woman burns fire during a Voodoo ceremony, traditionally held at the start of a protest as Haitians take to the streets to protest over the increasing insecurity in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, March 29, 2022. VALERIE BAERISWYL/AFP via Getty Images In the American colonies, African...
How did the Knights of Labor differ from other nineteenth-century labor organizations? Knights of Labor: The Knights of Labor was a workers' union that was first established as a secret organization in 1869 by Uriah Smith Stephens. The original name of the organization was the N...
The System of American Slavery Before theAmerican Revolution, tobacco was the colonies’ main cash crop, with exports of the aromatic leaf increasing from 60,000 pounds in 1622 to 1.5 million by 1639. By the end of the century, Britain was importing more than 20 million pounds of tobacco pe...
submissive and not involved or interested in politics, and the epidemic of racial prejudice was heavy in the North as well as the South, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, and Frederick Douglass, and many more, dared to speak out. The road to freedom fromslaverywas long and hard for the Afri...
Clint Smith about his new book, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America. We talk about the history of slavery in this country and how we approach, excavate, recognize, and react to that history — and how we have a responsibility and accountability ...