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…eradicated from the human population, though small samples of the virus still exist in U.S. laboratories and in other countries, including Russia and likely North Korea. The 1849 cholera pandemic…
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…it.” After this outcome, Helen Franklin reached out to the War Manpower Commission, a commission created to manage wartime labor needs, requesting a transfer to the Veteran’s Bureau. She wrote,…
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…off of the slave economy often owned immense sugar plantations in the Caribbean, where tremendous numbers of enslaved people lived, labored, and died. The 1763 Peace of Paris that concluded…
Read More…Harvard University in 1928, and Director of the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory and Visiting Physician to the Boston City Hospital. In 1934 he was awarded, along with George Hoyt Whipple, the…
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…America remain at peace. The physicality of the lion’s body also represents the idea that Black labor would continue to be the “muscle” behind the nation’s economy, even without slavery….
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…Quincy shipyard put out a call for laborers to help build vessels for the Navy. Paul applied and was delighted to secure a position that paid a much higher salary…
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…well as those whose labor on Caribbean plantations helped finance the grand homes of white Tory Row elites. Originating among the Congolese in West Africa and dating back to at…
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…wrote “climate change” and “income inequality and poverty.” Other answers included: The ways in which local people and institutions benefited from slave labor. Why and how Boston and Cambridge remained–and…
Read More…same time by Josiah P. Cooke. “The laboratory of the Lawrence Scientific School,” it has been said, “was one of the first in the United States to be organized and…
Read More…the first unloading of the products of Japanese cheap labor! Many of them were very pretty and wonderful for a child to buy. I think I still have a Japanese…
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