Posted on 23 August 2010. Tags: 1771, Debt, Oxford Magazine, Servants, slaves

Today Most Western countries are struggling to pay off their national debt and keep their houses in order, it seems though, that things have been the same many times before. The 1770's were no different. People came up with unpopular and outlandish ideas to balance the books, just as they do today. Â The article below ...
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Posted on 15 September 2009. Tags: Abolition, Black Britain, Black British, Black Londoners, London, Servants, Slavery

Black British Timeline
First era of large scale settlement of blacks in Britain. Spans period of Britain's involvement in the tri-continental slave trade. Black slaves were in attendance as sea captains sauntered through the streets. In Tottenham, All Hallows Church baptismal register records "John Cyras, Captain Madden's black" in March 1718, and at St Mary's Church, ...
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