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Other language experts think the word has a Native American origin. The Choctaw people are one of many Native American groups. The Choctaw language has a word “okeh.” This word means “it is so.” This is almost the same meaning as today’s word “okay.” As early as 1825, Christian...
Yet Zephaniah Kingsley's slaves in Spanish Florida had muskets for hunting, as well as pistols for personal protection; slaves had been kidnapped or killed during an earlier raid by Indians and Americans at his plantation in Orange Park, and that was no doubt in the minds of both the ...
Every year, as many as 50, 000 elephants in Africa are killed illegally for their tusks (象牙). Now scientists have improved DNA methods that allow them to match up elephant tusks, and help track down criminals that are selling them. Even though it’s against the law, African elephants ...
In both cases, the city councils voted to remove the Confederate statues, ruling that they were offensive to the two cities' majority African-American residents and flashpoints for violence. But many monuments to the Confederacy still stand in American cities.According to the Southern Poverty Law ...
"The colleges are underinvested in, like many African Americans and their communities are underinvested in," says Lodriguez Murray, the UNCF's senior vice president of public policy and government affairs. "Originally they enrolled the progeny of slaves. They tend to enroll in modern times, sti...
Thefirst modern computer, calledENIAC, was completed in 1946 at the University of Pennsylvania. This computer, which was really many machines working together, took up a whole room. The system was ready in time for use in parts of the 1950 census, and the Census Bureau ordered its own comp...
To help show the big patterns of American slavery, I have created aninteractive map of the spread of slavery. Where the Coast Survey map showed one measure, the interactive map shows the population of slaves, of free African Americans, of all free people, and of the entire United States, ...
The British had experience, however, with stubborn slave trading nations. For many years they had channeled money to Brazil and Cuba to pay spies—usually slave traders who had turned their back on the trade, or at least claimed they had. Now it was time to try that...