Baltimore
American centre of furniture production. In the early 19th century Baltimore, MD, emerged as an important centre for the design and production of furniture. From 1800 until 1812, when the ...
Black Towns
Black women have been the cultural, social, and economic support of black towns in America for centuries. There were Senegalese enclaves in Louisiana in the 1700s. In the late eighteenth ...
Caribbean
The Caribbean region consists primarily of a chain of islands, 2,000 miles long, that frames the northern and eastern boundaries of the Caribbean Sea. The chain curves from Cuba, the ...
demographics
Statistics that describe the characteristics of a population, such as age, sex, race, family size, income, and location of residence.
Great Migration
The first decades of the twentieth century were characterized by a massive migration of African Americans within the United States. Designated the “Great Migration,” this movement of blacks from the ...
Henry M. Turner
(b. 1 February 1834; d. 8 May 1915),orator, author, civil rights activist, bishop, and advocate of black emigration. Born free to Sarah Greer and Hardy Turner in Newberry, South ...
Immigrants and African Americans
Immigration has been part of U.S. history from the country's beginnings. In fact, the Declaration of Independence included the imputation that George III was “obstructing the laws for naturalization ...
Kansas
Kansas, with an area of 82,282 square miles, stretches westward from the Missouri River across the Great Plains. It covers a route that used to be the main trail for trade between the United States ...
Missouri Compromise
An arrangement made in 1820 which provided that Missouri should be admitted to the Union as a slave state, but that slavery should not be allowed in any new state lying north of 36° 30′.
North Carolina
In the early twenty-first century Latinos and Latinas represent the largest foreign-born population in North Carolina, and their numbers are growing rapidly in the state. What is the relative size ...
Ohio
Although most U.S. Latinas and Latinos continue to live in the West and Southwest, figures from the 2000 census show that the Midwest experienced the largest percentage increase of this ...
Prince Saunders
(b. c. 1775; d. February 1839), schoolteacher, author, and statesman in two Haitian governments.Saunders was born in Lebanon, Connecticut, around 1775 and baptized in Thetford, Vermont, in 1784. He ...
segregation
A policy predicated upon the physical separation of racial groups and practised in the USA, particularly in the southern states, from the late nineteenth century until the 1970s. Opposition to ...
slave Narratives
A written account by an escaped or freed slave of his or her experiences of slavery. A special American form of autobiography, the slave narrative appeared as an important kind of abolitionist ...
Solomon Bayley
(b. c. 1771; d. 1839), a former slave and writer.Born into slavery in Delaware, Solomon Bayley toiled in bondage until 1799, when he successfully used the law to change ...
Stephen Blucke
(b. c. 1752; d. c. 1795), black Loyalist leader.Born free in Barbados, Stephen Blucke moved to New York City sometime before 1770. There Blucke married Margaret Coventry, who was ...
work
Activities involving physical and/or mental effort. While a large part of this is in paid employment, or working for economic gain while self-employed, there are other forms of work. This is ...
