... of the Bicentennial Without Colonies movement saw the commemoration as a way to call attention to ongoing inequalities. American Revolution Bicentennial 1976 Baldwin James Boston Boston Tea Party Committee for Individual Liberty Disabled American Veterans History past as present National Organization for Women...

...This chapter examines the orientations and subdivisions of certain spaces, including camps and colonies, places and spaces that Roman magistrates created while operating away from Rome. Orientation Templum templa Arx Livy T Livius M Terentius Varro Haruspex haruspices M Tullius Cicero Orbis...

...The beginning of English settlements in the New World and the history of its founders is discussed in this chapter. The life history of the eight proprietors is told throughout the chapter and discusses events that led to the settlement of the first colonies. The first colony under proprietary...

... of Andrew Carnegie Kenya Poynton John Russell James Earl Oldham J H Frederick P. Keppel Carnegie Corporation Andrew Carnegie White supremacy Gospel of Wealth James Bertram Triumphant Democracy Kenya British colonies Africa Frederick P. Keppel became president of Carnegie Corporation in 1923...

...This chapter describes how the new sovereigns William and Mary, with the support of a willing Parliament, proceeded to make new imperial arrangements conducive to more effective royal government in the colonies. The largely self-governing colonies of Connecticut and Rhode Island stand out...

... is an example of African American resistance, resilience, and agency -- a “freedom colony” similar to others in the US and world. The chapter also summarizes and critiques the methods and sources used for the book. Clarke Mable Owens Ku Klux Klan oral history Soapstone Baptist Church violence racial...

... historical “truth” Sutherland James Clarke Mable Owens countermemory memory Pickens County Avery Myrta Lockett Owens Chris Owens Will Rosie Glenn’s husband freedom colonies hidden transcripts McJunkin Joseph resistance Young Angela McJunkin American Colonization Society Bald Rock Blue Ridge...

... growth. This chapter examines the debates about population growth in Britain's Caribbean colonies—particularly Jamaica, Guyana, and Barbados—both before and immediately after the end of slavery. It links these debates to assessments of the “mighty experiment” of slave emancipation and to some...

... Caribbean colonies during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It looks at the emergence of a range of new ideas about medicine and public health, together with immigration, designed to ensure the population growth needed to sustain the colonial economies. Chamberlain Joseph Guyana British...

...This chapter examines the interplay between alcohol and colonialism in Africa. Europeans brought their alcoholic beverages, attitudes, and consumption patterns with them to the rest of the world, and in Africa they encountered indigenous populations with their own alcoholic beverages and modes...

...The epilogue briefly examines slave self-liberation strategies and legal emancipation in the fifty years following general emancipation in the British colonies in 1838 up to the abolition of slavery in Brazil in 1888. The epilogue explores differences in national trajectories to abolition...

... that contributed to the elaboration of commercial networks between colonies. It looks at a wide range of transshipment strategies in this experimental period and the emergence of more regular distributions along consistent routes. It also considers the gradual shift in the intercolonial movements of enslaved...

...This chapter focuses on the British slave trade which was centered in the Caribbean during the period 1700–1763, while North America’s colonies remaind on the periphery. From 1701 to 1775, more than 1.5 million enslaved Africans were delivered by British traders to the Americas. Over 80 percent...

... extensive in the American colonies. This book identifies here many of Byrd's sources and raises the question: how reliable are histories that build silently upon antecedent texts and present borrowed material as firsthand testimony? In this analysis, the book demonstrates the need for a new category...

... assistance as part of modernization plans. Nevertheless, continuing Cold War anticommunism and fears of growing Soviet influence propelled alliances with colonial powers and white regimes. While colonialism and white supremacy, not anticommunism and the Cold War, meant more to Africans, Washington struggled...

..., constitute what is called the “sugar revolution.”. This chapter provides a historical overview of the sugar economies in the early Atlantic colonies. It discusses the sugar plantation system and its development as part of the “sugar revolution.” Atlantic economy origins of Atlantic slave trade and sugar...

... the subsequent fifteen years occurred in Great Britain's colonies: enslaved people could both rely on the abolitionist movement that had led to the end of the slave trade and give it renewed momentum by demanding the total and immediate emancipation of every slave in British America. These three slave revolts...

...This chapter considers the extent to which many of the ideas and approaches concerning population growth and infant and maternal welfare in Britain's Caribbean colonies—particularly Jamaica, Guyana, and Barbados—continued to be expressed in the 1930s in the context of the West India Royal...

...Between the 1690s and 1721, the East India Company, English woolen and silk spinners and weavers, English Atlantic pirates operating out of colonial ports, and Parliament debated the implications of Indian calicoes, leading to new developments in the imperial structure. The government eventually...