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As a prime bartering tool, the ship also carried 185 barrels (equivalent to more than 17,000 gallons) of rum. [ 1 ] The Sally's route, cargo stores, and destination perpetuated the Triangular Trade patterns of the slave trade that included the Caribbean, Africa, and the northeastern United States.
Titled The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It and written partly in North Carolina but published when the author was in the Northern United States, it argued that slavery hurt the economic prospects of non-slaveholders and was an impediment to the growth of the entire region of the South. Anger over his book due to the belief he was ...
Map of Tennessee circa 1796 showing early counties and districts, Cherokee towns, and the northern terminus of the Natchez Trace. "Bears, deer, buffaloes, and other wild animals, now extinct in this part of the country, were plentiful, and furnished food for the settlers. Wild cats, wolves, and snakes were also numerous, and had their haunts ...
Horton was born into slavery on William Horton's plantation in about 1798 in Northampton County, North Carolina. He was the sixth of ten children; the names of his parents are unknown. When Horton was six years old (1797), William Horton relocated his family and the people he held in slavery to a farm in Chatham County, North Carolina. This ...
Thompson's book contains major chapters that focus on topics that include George Washington and Martha Washington as slave owners; George Washington's changes in views about slavery over time; supervisors of slaves who were hired, indentured, or enslaved; family life in Mount Vernon's slave community; the slaves' quarters; the slaves' diets; slaves' recreation and private enterprise; and ...
Published this month by the University of Georgia Press, Thurmond's book makes a case that Oglethorpe evolved to revile slavery and, unlike most white Europeans of his time, saw the humanity in ...
Each embassy and consulate, the world over, was a centre of influences for slavery and against freedom. We ought to take this into account when we blame foreign nations for not accepting at once the United States as an antislavery power, bent on the destruction of slavery, as soon as our civil war broke out. For twenty years foreign merchants ...
His Picture of Slavery in the United States of America was published in 1834 and included illustrations of whippings and an auction. [3] He also was the editor of various publications dealing with anti-slavery and poperism, most notably the Christian Intelligencer at the time of his death in New York City on November 20, 1845. Several of his ...