"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" is the title of a speech delivered by Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York. At the time, Douglass was a prominent African American abolitionist and former slave, known for his powerful oratory skills and advocacy for the rights of ...
More than 100 U.S. political elites have family links to slavery https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-slavery-lawmakers/ Legacy Admission to these families ? so deserving https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-slavery-lawmakers/
The fact is, ladies and gentlemen, the distance between this platform and the slave plantation, from which I escaped, is considerable—and the difficulties to be overcome in getting from the latter to the former, are by no means slight. That I am here to---day is, to me, a matter of astonishmen ...
From as early as 1802 Captain William Layman had suggested that the colony of Trinidad would benefit greatly from free Chinese labour. It was felt that free Chinese labour would be a suitable substitute for African slave labour and that these “free civilized men” would set the African slave ...
George Washington's first recorded order for tea dates to December of 1757, when he wrote to England seeking "6 lb. best Hyson Tea" and "6 lb. best Green Ditto." Sick and having arrived back at Mount Vernon from the frontier, Washington sent a note to his neighbor Sally requesting some f ...
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