Why did slavery continue after the American Revolution? Why was the Bantu Migration important? Why did Europe colonize Africa during the New Imperialism? Why did ancient Egyptians trade? Why did Quakers support settlement of freed slaves in Africa? Why would someone become an indentured servant? Wh...
Slavery lasted from 1619 to 1865, with the Jim Crow laws running in the southern states of the USA from 1877 to 1965. Black people, as you’ll know, were taken by force from West Africa in slave ships to work on sugar, coffee, and cotton plantations owned by rich Europeans. Once ther...
These movements had their origin in the American South and the defence of slavery – and have always been tolerated, to some extent, by the power elites (the term was coined by sociologist C Wright Mills in the 1950s) that governed America. Hofstadter wrote during a period when a liberal ...
Why did slavery start in Jamestown? Why were the southern colonies founded? What is one reason colonists came to America? Why was the Atlantic slave trade important? Why did Pilgrims leave England? Why did the transatlantic slave trade end? What were Britain's reasons for establishing colonies ...
Which country did slaves take control of after independence? Haitibecame the world's first black-led republic and the first independent Caribbean state when it threw off French colonial control and slavery in the early 19th century. Which country gained independence first?
For a White or Mexican living on the frontier, encounters with Comanche were likely to end in conditions “worse than death”. If you were not killed outright, you would expect to endure rape and/or very ingenious torture, followed by death. Possibly chattel slavery. No one could expect to...
Why, instead, did an Israeli internal investigation, which released its findings just two weeks ago, say that a 2002 missile strike in Gaza that tore apart the small bodies of 8 children asleep in their beds was ‘justified’, and that there was ‘no wrongdoing’ committed by the ...
But there came a time when He punished them, allowing the Babylonians to carry them away to slavery in Babylon for around 70 years. After returning from captivity, they resumed their daily lives under the Persians, then the Macedonian empires, until a new, far more powerful entity invaded ...
Clearly, in terms of conflict (and the resulting disruption caused by it), the Makhnovists did not have the relative peace the Bolsheviks had (who never once lost their main bases of Petrograd or Moscow, although they came close). As such, the problems used to justify the repressive and ...
Fall in profits for every ¥1 depreciation against the US dollar, due to rising costs of imported materials The discount furnishing group generates most of its sales in Japan so the weaker yen impact is negative due to the rising cost of imported materials. Until the end of this month, th...