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As a child, did you ever play Oregon Trail? From the safety of your computer chair, you were able to get a taste of the trials early pioneers had to endure: illness, food shortages, sluggish pacing, and unreliable tools like that pesky wagon axle that always broke. Despite the dangers of making the 2,000-mile trek… MORE
For Americans grappling with the contradictions of slavery, colonization provided a seemingly benevolent and ethical solution without granting African Americans full equality.
Although the Great Depression was born on Wall Street, it affected Americans in their homes and on the streets, and its ramifications would echo for decades. The record unemployment of the Great Depression is jarring but doesn’t even begin to convey the distress felt by individuals in their daily lives for so many years. Many… MORE
1760-1800 Sancho, Ignatius, 1729-1780. Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African. In Two Volumes. To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life. London: J. Nichols, 1782. [Link to Volume Two] Equiano, Olaudah, 1745?-1797. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself. (2 vols.) London: The Author, 1789. 1800-1860 Brinch,… MORE