After the short film, I walked my way around the exhibits, which were mostly large posters with information and a lot of older artifacts from the Civil War like guns, and the personal belongings of some of the higher ranking men. What I found interesting was a few posters depicting letters...
with little written history, were shrouded in mystery. What is known now from clues in the various dialects of their language, Romany, is that they came from northern India to the Middle East a thousand years ago, working as minstrels and mercenaries...
This country also offers up a slice of culture and history, of course; in fact, the history of Iceland begins exactly with Vikings, these being the first settlers of the island (along with their slaves from the British Isles and Norway) in the early 9th Century AD. Iceland’s accommodation...
Before the repeal of acts in 1864, only a little over 300 people were returned to slavery while it is estimated that from 1,000-5,000 slaves escaped yearly from 1830-1860. The Africa community continued to be active in the underground railroad in the years to come. Those freed slaves w...
Ships from Vicksburg were at the banks of the levee, ready to do this. But LeRoy Percy warned his son that their peers, the other planters, would not be happy about it. These were the laborers in the fields, and if they were evacuated downriver, they would never come back....
Where were slaves taken to in America? Where did the Stono Rebellion take place? Where did cows spread to after the Columbian Exchange? Where did Old Imperialism take place? Where did the Jugurthine War take place? Where was the Battle of the Pyramids? Where did coffee spread to after the...
In Roman society, well over half of the population were slaves. Slaves were expected to behave differently from free people. Imagine how difficult it was for a Roman citizen and his or her slave to sit down together and share a meal as equals! And yet that is what Jesus expected of ...
Because we were such a small command, this was a “collateral duty” meaning it was an extra thing I had to do in addition to my regular job, meaning it was paid very little attention – it was considered a minor annoyance that distracted me from what I was really there for. My ...
1995, 1999) were constructed by hand and confirmed by the Network program (A. Röhl; Shareware Phylogenetic Network Software Web site). For network construction of some specific lineages, sequence data from other populations were taken from the literature. From the Anatolia/Caucasus region, we ...
including wealth from an ancestor who, though a Northerner, had sold tent canvas to Southern rebels during the Civil War. Inheriting is like winning the lottery, but it is an advantage, like education, denied to a people who started as slaves and were later limited to share-cropping and ...