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Danish ships involved in transatlantic slave trade uncovered off Costa Rica
Danish ships involved in transatlantic slave trade uncovered off Costa Rica - Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus sank ...
The 19th Century Thinker Who Touted Tariffs
But by the end of the 19th century, the industrial social-economic order that tariffs helped foster were quite different from ...
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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, enslaved people in 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 ...
Slave trade database moving to Harvard
Today, its multisource dataset, currently housed at Rice University, features information on more than 30,000 slaving vessels ...
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Descendants of slave owners and enslaved people in the Caribbean call for reparations at the UN
(Gabrielle Blackwood via AP) UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British Prime Minister William Gladstone said he was horrified to learn seven years ago that his ancestors ...
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Descendants of slave owners and enslaved people in the Caribbean call for reparations at the UN
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British Prime Minister William ... suffering” caused by the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the African Union’s designation ...
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Descendants of slave owners and enslaved people in the Caribbean call for reparations at the UN
UNITED NATIONS — (AP) — The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British Prime Minister William Gladstone ... the “untold suffering” caused by the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the African Union’s ...