The Lower Mississippi River flows from the confluence of the Ohio River and Mississippi River at Cairo, Illinois into the Gulf of Mexico. Mississippi River and Ohio River pathway shifts have shaped and re-shaped the l...
This article investigates the role of Portugal in the birth of the transatlantic slave trade.For a long time,most explanations of this traffic by American historians divorced the so-called“Old World”slave trade from...
This article is supported by the National Social Science Fund of China(Project No.15BZS068).
A new statute.“Hiding New and Old Fugitive Slaves of Manchus,”was added to the First version of the Qing code in 1647.and this statute surprisingly regulated that any offenders would be excluded from any amnesties.T...
In the U.S,Racial discrimination,especially for black people,can be found throughout the history and still exists so far.The root of it dates back to long ago.From intensive study,the passage identifies the roots of r...
Mark Twain is a great literary giant of America, and he is also generally considered one of America’s first and foremost realist and humorists. Among his works,the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,which proves itsel...
Before emancipation, most balck women worked for the whites as domestic slaves; After emancipation, most balck women, as domestic emloyees, still had to do hard domestic work for survival, though they had a little fre...
Whether to be a slave to a child and its upbringing is nowadays a hot topic in China. The term "child’s slave" has become omnipresent in cyberspace. It refers to the group of young parents born in the 1980s who have ...
In June of 1959,joining the working team,Lan Zhigui headed to the palace of Lhagyari,the ruling lama in Lhoka.On June 10th,he arrived at Tsethang Township and began recording his journey."Lhagyari is the stronghold of...