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The Kongo Kingdom and Portugal: Africa's First Diplomatic Crisis (1483-1526)

When Portuguese explorers reached the Kongo Kingdom in 1483, King Nzinga a Nkuwu converted to Christianity and established diplomatic relations. His son Afonso…

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Ona Judge: The Enslaved Woman Who Escaped from George Washington and Refused to Go Back

In May 1796, while George Washington was at a dinner party in Philadelphia, a 22-year-old woman named Ona Judge walked out of the presidential household and nev…

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The Human Cost — Conquest, Colonialism, and the Logic of Catastrophe

The standard triumphal narrative of the Age of Exploration has a body count problem. Between 1492 and 1900, the combination of disease, direct violence, enslav…

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The Haitian Revolution — The Only Successful Slave Revolt That Created a Nation

In the summer of 1791, a ceremony was held at Bois Caïman in the northern mountains of Saint-Domingue. What began there as a spiritual gathering among enslaved…

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The Haitian Revolution, 1791–1804 — How Enslaved People Built the First Black Republic

# The Haitian Revolution, 1791–1804 — How Enslaved People Built the First Black Republic In the summer of 1791, on the night of August 14th, enslaved people g…

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The Haitian Revolution — The Only Successful Slave Revolt That Created a Nation

On the night of August 22, 1791, somewhere in the hills above Cap-Français on the northern coast of Saint-Domingue, enslaved people began to rise. The signal ha…

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"The American Civil War: Why Economics, Not Just Slavery, Made the Conflict Inevitable"

By 1860, the United States had become two countries sharing a flag. The North was industrializing at a pace that rivaled Britain, its cities filling with immi…

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