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Natural Rights, Citizenship Rights, State Rights, and Black Rights: Another Look at Lincoln and Race
Stephen Douglas was the first in a long line of observers...
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Two Revolutions in the Atlantic World: Connections between the American Revolution and the Haitian Revolution
The late eighteenth century saw two successful anti-colonial revolutions unfold in the...
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Avast! How the US Built a Navy, Sent in the Marines, and Faced Down the Barbary Pirates
In October 1784, an American merchant vessel, the Betsey, was on a trade run from her home port of Boston to Tenerife in the Canary Islands when she was approached by an un-flagged vessel. Suddenly, “...
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Fall of Constantinople
Ottoman Turks seized Constantinople and denied Christian Europeans access to the Black Sea. As a result, Africans carried across the Sahara began to make up a larger proportion of the slave labor force.
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Georgia founded
The colony of Georgia was founded with a ban on slavery in the colony.
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, the first autobiography of an African American woman, was published.
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Escaped slaves declared “contraband”
General Benjamin Butler at Fort Monroe, Virginia, declared escaped slaves “contraband” of war and refused to return them to their owners.