Slavery
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Revealed: how Church of England’s ties to chattel slavery went to top of hierarchy | Slavery – Beragampengetahuan
An archbishop of Canterbury in the 18th century approved payments for the purchase of enslaved people for two sugar plantations in Barbados, documents seen by the Observer have revealed. Thomas Secker agreed to reimburse a payment for £1,093 for the purchase of enslaved people on the Codrington Plantations, as well as hiring enslaved people from […]
A Confederate Officer Recounts the Virginia Slavery Debate of 1831–1832 – Beragampengetahuan
beragampengetahuan | April 10, 2024 7:30 am by Ron Coddington Life on the Civil War Research Trail A presentation requested by Dale Coberly about what could have happened if Virginia had followed suit in freeing the slaves pre-Civil War. A Slavery debate in the 1830s. ~~~~~~~~ In his 1910 memoirs, […]