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The Virginia Calculator: Thomas Fuller, the slave with remarkable calculation power who was used by antislavery campaigners as a demonstration that blacks were not mentally inferior to whites.

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2021-10-23

author Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in 1811. These illustrations are from our very rare Dutch by C.M. Mensing of the classic (Haarlem, 1853). Find out more:
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2021-06-14

Dear , It is not fair to say that UK "tackles modern day slavery wherever it occurs". UK defends & funds cruel business models like "#Fairtrade" coffee, tea & cocoa that sustain slavery, misery & child labor, besides deceiving UK consumers.

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2020-10-18

Susan B. Anthony agitated for change all her life. She started as an antislavery activist & became a suffrage leader. Anthony worked with Elizabeth Cady Stanton to found the first national women’s suffrage organization.

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2020-08-07

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an innovative thinker, writer & leader. After years of antislavery activism, she helped spark the women’s rights movement by drafting the Declaration of Sentiments for the Women's Rights Convention in 1848.

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2020-08-04

Thomas Fuller, the slave with remarkable calculation power who was used by antislavery campaigners as a demonstration that blacks were not mentally inferior to whites.

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2020-05-26

Thomas Fuller, the slave with remarkable calculation power who was used by antislavery campaigners as a demonstration that blacks were not mentally inferior to whites.

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2018-05-18

The ABC's of February. "F" is for Frederick. Frederick Douglass was a social reformer/abolitionist/orator/statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement noted for his speeches and incisive antislavery writings.

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2018-02-07

The Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 – tasked with hunting down and stopping Slave Ships

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2017-10-18