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 ...
Mulberry was poorest st Mulberry and Park , now Columbus Park , next to Five Points area. Chinatown Mott , Pell , were butcher store names back in Dutch colonial time. Dutc hused slaves to work on farms Bayard