C‑SPAN.org offers links to books featured on the C‑SPAN networks ... where he worked as a laborer for three years. He eluded slave hunters by changing his name to Douglass.

The black indentured servant, with his hope of freedom, was increasingly being replaced by the black slave. In 1705, the Virginia General Assembly removed any lingering uncertainty about this ...

A tour group photographs a sign marking the location of New York City's slave market This month marks 400 years since enslaved Africans were first brought to what is now the United States of America.

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login This is the first book to explore in a systematic manner the strategies used by Africans to protect and defend themselves and their ...

Bucciferro, Justin R. 2013. A Forced Hand: Natives, Africans, and the Population of Brazil, 1545-1850. Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin ...

As voted on by 503 book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review. Sonia Purnell’s biography of Pamela Harriman argues that the Democratic stalwart and ...

Instead, I spent a year of my life digging through the archives and old newspaper articles to learn about the barcode’s origins – and eventually went on to write a book about the cultural ...

And this is why we do not find the word 'slave' in any part of Scripture until righteous Noah branded the sin of his son with this name. It is a name, therefore, introduced by sin and not by nature.

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Oxfam launched our Behind the Barcodes campaign in 2018 to examine the policies and practices of some of the biggest supermarkets around the world. We have conducted research through surveys and ...

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. Book lovers have all inevitably found themselves slogging through arid prose that stretches on endlessly. Sometimes the culprit ...