For Black people, the Revolution was full of paradoxes
There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...
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What Spurred the South to Join the American Revolution?
How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor ...
Plans for 500-hectare Scottish plantation lodged as forestry called 'inherent risk' to community
Campaigners claim the cumulative impact of large-scale conifer plantations is having a negative impact on communities and ...
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The 5 best destinations you can visit on a Ponant cruise ship
The small luxury line is particularly known for sailings to remote places such as Antarctica, the Arctic, and islands in the ...
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47th president backs U.S. entry into British Commonwealth, raising alarm over legacy of American independence and slave trade
The President supports the U.S. becoming an 'associate member' of the British Commonwealth, a move that could rewrite the meaning of American independence.
This is the heartbeat of efforts to save a global icon. Is it too late?
“The only solution is for the whole world to get together and stop polluting the earth with carbon emissions,” says Hoggett. ...
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Underground Railroad
In the 1850s and 1860s, British North America became a popular refuge for slaves fleeing the horrors of plantation life in ... since the end of the 1700s. Southern slave-owners tried to discourage ...