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Descendants of slave owners and enslaved people in the Caribbean call for reparations at the UN
The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British Prime Minister William Gladstone said he was horrified to learn seven years ...
‘Fear No Pharaoh’ recalls Jewish voices in debate over American slavery
Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched book about the Civil War era illuminates the lives of six Jewish Americans and their ...
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How a 19th-century British Jew became a Zulu chieftain and slaveholding warlord
In new book 'The Jew Who Would Be King,' historian Adam Rovner tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, who survived a shipwreck ...
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Descendants of slave owners and enslaved people in the Caribbean call for reparations at the UN
UNITED NATIONS -- The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British Prime Minister William Gladstone said he was horrified to learn seven years ago that his ancestors were slave owners in Jamaica ...
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Trivially Speaking: 19th century inventors put egg beaters in the mix
The first hand-operated rotary egg beaters were invented just before the Civil War (but were not connected to slavery or states’ rights). Prior to that time eggs were hand-whipped (not as ...
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‘Fear No Pharaoh’ recalls Jewish voices in debate over American slavery
How could someone who professed such beliefs participate in the slave trade ... these questions by illuminating the lives of six 19th-century Jewish Americans. They are, on the spectrum from ...
Descendants of slave owners in the Caribbean call for reparations at the UN
From around the year 1500, millions of west Africans were sent to work mainly on plantations in the Caribbean and the ...
At NMAAHC, ‘In Slavery’s Wake’ lays bare the long road to freedom
Making Black Freedom in the World” uses artifacts, art, audio and video to explore the horrors of enslavement alongside the struggle for justice.