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23 hours ago · Writing titan John Edgar Wideman traces the ‘Slaveroad’ that leads all the way up to today. Nonfiction: In a genre-defying book, a seasoned writer returns to familiar ground and digs deeply into...
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23 hours ago · The Compromise of 1850 included a much harsher fugitive slave law. It also included all of the following EXCEPT a. New Mexico and Utah would determine their own fates as slave or free states based on popular sovereignty b. Kansas entered the Union as a slave state c. California joined the Union as a free state d. The slave trade, but not ...
23 hours ago · Twenty-three years earlier, King Louis XIV had issued a set of rules that defined slavery as legal in the French sugar islands. But when two slaves managed to reach France, he freed them—saying they became free "as soon as they [touched] the soil" of France.
23 hours ago · Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth century, when the slave trade was finally abolished, at least how many captives left Africa as slaves for the New World?
23 hours ago · When the trans-Saharan, Red Sea, Indian Ocean and Atlantic slave trades began, many of the pre-existing local slave systems started supplying captives for slave markets outside Africa, creating various diasporas, especially in the Americas.
23 hours ago · Speeches given by the indigenous leader Pontiac in 1762 and 1763—both during and after the Seven Years' War—took the form of advice to both the English and to his Native American followers. Analyze the speeches from Pontiac, and then match the following statements to their intended audience.
