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Colonial Place is a residential neighborhood in Norfolk, Virginia. It is a peninsula bordered by 38th Street on the south, and surrounded on three sides by the Lafayette River . It is a relatively racially mixed area that includes mostly single family homes and a few apartment buildings.
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Education in the Thirteen Colonies during the 17th and 18th centuries varied considerably. Public school systems existed only in New England. In the 18th Century, the Puritan emphasis on literacy largely influenced the significantly higher literacy rate (70 percent of men) of the Thirteen Colonies, mainly New England, in comparison to Britain (40 percent of men) and France (29 percent of men).
A Small Place is a work of creative nonfiction published in 1988 by Jamaica Kincaid.A book-length essay drawing on Kincaid's experiences growing up in Antigua, it can be read as an indictment of the Antiguan government, the tourist industry and Antigua's British colonial legacy, which includes slavery.
Overall, Horne's book analyses the historical roots of settler colonialism and the interconnectedness of capitalism, white supremacy, and slavery in the colonial period. Focusing on the Eastern Seaboard of North America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Great Britain, Horne provides a well-researched, distressing account of the catastrophic loss and ...
Three years later, he published The Mad Mullah of Somaliland, his book on Diiriye Guure's rebel leader-emir Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, the so-called "Mad Mullah" who led an armed resistance against British, Italian, and Ethiopian forces in Somalia. In 1921, Douglas became Senior Assistant Secretary, Nigerian Secretariat, a post he held until 1927.
Deborah, Lady Moody (born Deborah Dunch) (1586– circa 1659) is notable as the founder of Gravesend, Brooklyn, and is the only woman known to have started a village in colonial America. She was the first known female landowner in the New World . [ 1 ]
Gottlieb Mittelberger (1714 – 1758) was a German author, schoolmaster, organist, and Lutheran pastor. [1] [2] He was best known for his work Journey to Pennsylvania (1756).). Mittelberger's travelogue provides a firsthand historic account of the misery and exploitation of German immigrants during the US colonial pe