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A View of Kilkenny by Thomas Mitchell, 1757.
Slave or Enslaved?—A Note On Language You may be wondering about the terms used in the Slavery in the Pr...
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In 1836, a striving, twenty-four-year-old New England shoemaker took an excursion southward to recuperate from a bout with ill health. By...