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4 days ago · Last Updated: May 4, 2024 • Article History. Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla. Born: May 8, 1753, Corralejo, near Guanajuato, Mexico. Died: July 30, 1811, Chihuahua (aged 58) Role In: wars of independence.
5 days ago · But the Southampton Rebellion, also called Nat Turner’s Rebellion, captured the attention of the American nation in the late summer of 1831. The death of nearly 60 whites at the hands of enslaved people motivated Virginia’s leaders to consider an end to slavery within the Commonwealth’s borders.
1 day ago · Politics portal. v. t. e. The American Revolution was a rebellion and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies which peaked when colonists initiated an ultimately successful war for independence against the Kingdom of Great Britain.
5 days ago · A Woodcut Depicts Nat Turner's Rebellion. The event known as Nat Turner's Rebellion was the largest slave uprising in the antebellum South. Beginning in the early morning hours of August 21, 1831, Turner, a literate slave who claimed to be guided by religious visions, led a group of slaves in a series of attacks in Southampton County, Virginia.
1 day ago · Davis, David Brion, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823 (1999); The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (1988) Drescher, Seymour. Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery (2009) Finkelman, Paul, ed. Encyclopedia of Slavery (1999) Kemner, Jochen. "Abolitionism" Archived 6 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine (2015 ...
1 day ago · Paul Lovejoy, ‘The African diaspora: revisionist interpretations of ethnicity, culture and religion under slavery’ in Studies in the World History of Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation 11, 1 (997.Back to (8) Alice Bee Kasakoff ‘Is there a place for Anthropology in Social Science History’, Social Science History, 23, 4 (1999), 535–59 ...
2 days ago · John Caldwell Calhoun ( / kælˈhuːn /; [1] March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was an American statesman and political theorist who served as the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832. Born in South Carolina, he adamantly defended American slavery and sought to protect the interests of white Southerners.
