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Harvard Law Paid $27 for a Copy of Magna Carta. Surprise! It’s an Original.
Two British academics discovered that a “copy” of the medieval text, held in Harvard Law School’s library for 80 years, is ...
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Key West’s ‘Spirits of the Passage’ exhibit documents maritime slave trade
In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...
R.I. church confronts its history with the slave trade
While the Trump administration tries to downplay matters of race and racism in US history, the minister of a Providence ...
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Slavery west of the Blue Ridge was more common before the American Revolution than many think
When the Revolutionary War ended in 1783, a state census revealed that in some parts of Augusta County, slavery was so ...
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A new website illuminates the history of Indigenous enslavement in New England
Historians at Brown University and Tribal members from across New England are launching a project they hope will bring ...
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Locals Thought These Shipwrecks Had Belonged to Pirates. They Turned Out to Be 300-Year-Old Danish Slave Ships
The two vessels had been trafficking hundreds of enslaved Africans when a navigational error led them astray. They sank off ...