https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/01/columbia-university-slavery/514412/ How Money From Slave Trading Helped Start Columbia University The historian Eric Foner describes how profits from the slave trade helped fund the school formerly named King’s College. By ...
Smoke and Ashes is at once a travelogue, a memoir, and an essay in history, drawing on decades of archival research. In it, Ghosh traces the transformative effect the opium trade had on Britain, India, and China, as well as the world at large. The trade was engineere ...
Newport, a city in Rhode Island, has a rich history that dates back to its founding in the 17th century. Some of the key early developers and influential figures in Newport's development include: William Coddington : One of the founders of Newport in 1639. Coddington was a p ...