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2 days ago · e. African-American history started with the arrival of Africans to North America in the 16th and 17th centuries. Former Spanish slaves who had been freed by Francis Drake arrived aboard the Golden Hind at New Albion in California in 1579. [1] The European colonization of the Americas, and the resulting Atlantic slave trade, led to a large ...
4 days ago · In the summer of 1692 all of eastern Massachusetts trembled in fear as neighbors and kinfolk accused one another of practicing witchcraft. Hundreds were jailed, and in the first round of the ensuing trials from June 2 to September 21, 1692—the most extensive mass trials of suspected criminals in the colonial period of American history—all ...
5 days ago · Crouch has written many first-rate essays about jazz and is considered to be the nation’s leading jazz critic; in addition, his novel, Don’t the Moon Look Lonesome (2000), about a young white jazz singer and her African American saxophonist husband, offers the reader an insider’s view not only of the jazz world but of the intricacies of ...
4 days ago · Remove the paint from the top surface. Using the approach that George demonstrates, completely remove the paint that has gotten onto the top surface, leaving paint in only the desired areas. Use a good quality light to look closely at the surface, and be sure to remove any paint that might have penetrated into the pores of the wood by ...
3 days ago · George Washington ( John Trumbull, 1780), with William Lee, Washington's enslaved personal servant. The history of George Washington and slavery reflects Washington 's changing attitude toward the ownership of human beings. The preeminent Founding Father of the United States and a hereditary slaveowner, Washington became increasingly uneasy ...
5 days ago · Use a small amount of white with black to mix this dark grey paint color. Use the appropriate size round brush to fill in the parts of the face, hair, neck with the slightly lighter grey.Switch over to a smaller brush for those beautiful details. Use a little bit more white to mix a slightly lighter grey color.
4 days ago · Édouard Manet (born January 23, 1832, Paris, France—died April 30, 1883, Paris) was a French painter who broke new ground by defying traditional techniques of representation and by choosing subjects from the events and circumstances of his own time. His Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe ( Luncheon on the Grass ), exhibited in 1863 at the Salon des ...
