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As a member of the Mbuti people, [7] Ota Benga lived in equatorial forests near the Kasai River in what was then the Congo Free State.His people were attacked by the Force Publique, established by King Leopold II of Belgium as a militia to oppress the local people and communities, most of whom were used as forced laborers in the extraction and exploitation of Congo's massive supply of rubber. [8]
The chest drawers were and are called by many names: LAMSAS database contains 37 answers to the request to name a chest of drawers, with "bureau" and "dresser" most popular at 52.5% and 17.5% respectively. [5] Chippendale called them "commode tables" or "commode bureau tables", Hepplewhite used the terms "commodes", "chests of drawers".
Chest, 1845–1850, Walnut and Yellow Pine, North Carolina Museum of History. Thomas Day remained in Milton as a craftsman and achieved success and respect for his skill, and in 1829 he married Aquilla Wilson of Halifax County, Virginia; she, too, was a free Black. However, due to the increasingly strict migration laws imposed by the state of ...
A highboy consists of double chest of drawers (a chest-on-chest), with the lower section usually wider than the upper. [2] A lowboy is a table-height set of drawers designed to hold a clothes chest, [ 1 ] which had been the predominant place one stored clothes for many centuries.
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"Bruh" originated from the word "brother" and was used by Black men to address each other as far back as the late 1800s. Around 1890, it was recorded as a title that came before someone's name ...
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