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Apr 15, 2023 · Democracy Now! Occupy Wall Street; ... The memoirs of James II: his campaigns as Duke of York, 1652-1660 by James II, King of England, 1633-1701. Publication date 1962
Charles faced down the threat to his authority successfully. However, he was succeeded in 1685 by his openly Catholic brother James II, who proved politically inept and unable to build on Charles’ success. Fears of James’ catholicizing and absolutist intentions erupted in 1688 in the Glorious Revolution, when the Dutch leader William of ...
Jun 26, 2022 · The new colony of New York was named for the proprietor, James, the Duke of York, brother to Charles II and funder of the expedition against the Dutch in 1664. New York was briefly reconquered by the Netherlands in 1667, and class and ethnic conflicts in New York City contributed to the rebellion against English authorities during the Glorious ...
Oct 3, 2017 · Top portion of a 1672 proclamation offering to supply colonists with “negroes” at set prices, from H.R.H. James, Duke of York, and the Royal African Company (which had a monopoly on the slave trade) “to all His Majesties subjects, and especially to those Inhabiting the Plantations in AMERICA.”
- Holly Brewer
- 2017
Charles II was committed to expanding England’s overseas possessions. His policies in the 1660s through the 1680s established and supported the Restoration colonies: the Carolinas, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. All the Restoration colonies started as proprietary colonies, that is, the king gave each colony to a trusted individual ...
The British took over the New Amsterdam in 1664 and renamed it New York in honor of James II, the Duke of York. Under the British rule, the lives of slaves became increasingly more regulated. The British authority declared that slavery was a legal institution in 1665 and granted slaveholders the power of life-or-death over slaves in 1682.
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May 10, 2021 · That the Royal Family in particular had a major hand in transatlantic slavery – King Charles II and James, Duke of York, were primary shareholders in the Royal African Company, which ...
