What has become definitive of Canadian slavery, however, is Canadians’ willingness to forget it ever happened. Afua Cooper has famously called it “Canada’s best-kept secret.” Article content As early as 1833
We are told that the Dismal Swamp Canal is the oldest continually operating, man-made canal in the United States, and was said to have been built between 1793 and 1805 under the direction of the Dismal Swamp Canal Company, and the labor provided primarily by slaves rented from local ...
In 1793, England declared war against France, and the young United States desperately wanted to stay out of the conflict. In 1794, the U.S. and England signed theJay Treaty, which cemented peaceful relations between the nations a decade after theend of the Revolutionary War. This angered the...
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Everything happened so quickly... We understood barely that a sort of different eternity was advancing rapidly, in an inform and inexorable way. Nothing would be the same, nothing would ever change again, once it happened.” “One cannot be a man, fully, from the moment one admits that...
Whatever Happened to the American Stock Exchange? The American Stock Exchange, known as AMEX, was acquired by NYSE Euronext in a merger that was completed in early 2009.12It is now known as NYSE American and remains a marketplace for the trading of index options and the shares of small and...
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What happened to discourse? From a Facebook post this morning by me: I’m a long-time (now-ex) moderate Dem who did not vote for Trump but recently registered GOP for reasons—I’ve never liked unions or our unthinking PC ‘parrot’ culture & love free speech—unrelated to Trump. But...
Fort Sumter: First Battle In The Civil War It all started on April 28, 1948 In South Carolina. The Confederate forces commanded Beauregard to surround Fort Sumter. When he did they expected them to run away and they would takeover but that never happened. Three months later they finally fir...
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