enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. National Register of Historic Places listings in Virginia ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of...

    This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.

  3. History of slavery in Virginia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_Virginia

    In 1628, a slave ship carried 100 people from Angola to be sold into slavery in Virginia, and consequently the number of Africans in the colony rose greatly. [8] [13] [15] The Atlantic slave trade had been in existence among Europeans before Africans landed in Virginia and according to custom, slavery was legal.

  4. Emancipation of minors - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_of_minors

    This can be a valuable resource for minors in framing an emancipation petition. Students are able to stay with a guardian if necessary. In some states, an emancipation petition may be filed by a parent, for example in Alabama. Emancipation is not readily granted because of the subjectivity and narrowness of the "best interest" requirement.

  5. Timeline of African-American history - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_African...

    Signed with an "X", Reed's patent no. 305,474, granted September 23, 1884, is for a dough kneader and roller. Goode's patent for a cabinet bed, patent no. 322,177, is issued on July 14, 1885. Goode, the owner of a Chicago furniture store, invented a folding bed that could be formed into a desk when not in use. [citation needed]

  6. Libertarian perspectives on intellectual property - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_perspectives...

    At the other end, what the patent and copyright laws acknowledge is the paramount role of mental effort in the production of material values; these laws protect the mind's contribution in its purest form the origination of an idea. The subject of patents and copyrights is intellectual property. ... Thus the law establishes the property right of ...

  7. Northern Neck Proprietary - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Neck_Proprietary

    A map from 1736 map of the Northern Neck Proprietary. The Northern Neck Proprietary – also called the Northern Neck land grant, Fairfax Proprietary, or Fairfax Grant – was a land grant first contrived by the exiled English King Charles II in 1649 and encompassing all the lands bounded by the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers in colonial Virginia.

  8. History of forced labor in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_forced_labor_in...

    With emancipation a legal reality, white Southerners were concerned with both controlling the newly freed slaves and keeping them in the labor force at the lowest level. The system of convict leasing began during Reconstruction and was fully implemented in the 1880s and officially ending in the last state, Alabama, in 1928.

  9. History of Virginia Beach, Virginia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Virginia_Beach...

    The Old Cape Henry Light, completed in 1792, was the first federal construction project under the United States Constitution. The history of Virginia Beach, Virginia, goes back to the Native Americans who lived in the area for thousands of years before the English colonists landed at Cape Henry in April 1607 and established their first permanent settlement at Jamestown a few weeks later.