... understood as the first printed portrait of a named African American in the British Americas. This essay challenges the veracity of this myth and examines the various ways that Black women were imaged during the late eighteenth century. It argues for the broader significance of this portrait for women's...

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... This chapter brings together the geopolitical visions of Jamaican planters and merchants, British loyalists defeated in the American Revolution, and a sector of New Granada’s colonial authorities to argue that, in the aftermath of the American Revolution, their disparate interests converged...

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... of the Haudenosaunee. Indigenous Americas Conquest American Revolution cats Revolutionary Tigers: Revolutions were made in this era in France, The United States and Haiti—and cats did their part in each. Haitian rebel leader Toussaint Louverture ordered his troops to “fight like tigers,” while French...

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... and those who claimed them as escaped property at the end of the American Revolution. The Book of Negroes is an eighteenth-century ledger that lists three thousand self-emancipating former slaves who embarked mainly on British ships during the British evacuation of New York after the War of Independence...