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The Native American slave trade in the southeast relied on Native Americans trapping and selling other Natives into slavery; this trade between the colonists and the Native Americans had a profound effect on the shaping and nature of slavery in the Southeast. [1] While Natives enslaved other Natives prior to the contact with the European ...
Exhibit inside the Slavery Museum at Whitney Plantation Historic District, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. Following Robert Cavelier de La Salle establishing the French claim to the territory and the introduction of the name Louisiana, the first settlements in the southernmost portion of Louisiana (New France) were developed at present-day Biloxi (1699), Mobile (1702), Natchitoches ...
This political column name-drops several slave traders: Eli Odom, Isaac Franklin, John L. Harris, Thomas Rowan, Gen. Woolfolk, Rice Ballard, John Armfield—all while perpetuating the long-running debate over whether or not U.S. President Andrew Jackson was a "negro trader" in the early 1800s ("Means Used to Elect Col. Bingaman" The Mississippi ...
According to historian Jeffrey Ostler, "Any discussion of genocide must, of course, eventually consider the so-called Indian Wars, the term commonly used for U.S. Army campaigns to subjugate Indian nations of the American West beginning in the 1860s. In an older historiography, key events in this history were narrated as battles.
John Woolman. John Woolman (October 19, 1720 ( O.S. )/October 30, 1720 ( N.S.) [ 1] – October 7, 1772) was an American merchant, tailor, journalist, Quaker preacher, and early abolitionist during the colonial era. Based in Mount Holly, near Philadelphia, he traveled through the American frontier to preach Quaker beliefs, and advocate against ...
This ‘once in a generation’ Scottish cottage is up for sale. But there’s one key quirk. Jack Bantock, CNN. July 21, 2024 at 10:08 AM.
Louisiana (French: Louisiane) or French Louisiana [6] (Louisiane française) was an administrative district of New France.In 1682 the French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle erected a cross near the mouth of the Mississippi River and claimed the whole of the drainage basin of the Mississippi River in the name of King Louis XIV, naming it "Louisiana".
The Mississippi Company ( French: Compagnie du Mississippi; founded 1684, named the Company of the West from 1717, and the Company of the Indies from 1719 [ 1]) was a corporation holding a business monopoly in French colonies in North America and the West Indies. In 1717, the Mississippi Company received a royal grant with exclusive trading ...