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What is the focus of the Preliminary Declaration in the Haitian Constitution?  Give examples to support your answer.

The main focus of the Preliminary Declaration in the Haitian Constitution is what it m […]

What evidence was there to suggest there was a population concern in Haiti?

For starters in 1779 there were 7,055 people of color in Saint-Domingue. A mere eight years later there were almost 20,000. This means […]

What techniques were used in the Haitian Constitution (1805) to ensure that slavery could not, and would not, be reinstated?

There are four major ways in which the Haitian Constitution codifies the eradication […]

What is the internal bias that is prevalent in the Philidelphia General Advertiser and how is it shown?

While reading the reports that were printed in the Philidelphia General Advertiser about the slave […]

In Pierre Mossut’s letter to Marquis de Gallifet, he mentions that there is a driver behind the actions of the slaves that he does not understand, “There is a motor that powers them and that keeps powering them […]

What role, if any, did religion play in the uprisings? How do the descriptions of religious rituals in the excerpts from Herard Dumesle’s Voyage to the North of Haiti and Antoine Dalmas’ History of the Revolution […]

Considering Jean-Francois and Biassou’s letter to the new group of commissioners, why was the Colonial Assembly not convinced by Jean-Francois and Biassou’s warning about the possibility of destabilizing relations […]

I write to share this announcement from Phi Alpha Theta president Savanna Hitlan:

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Dear All,

Hello! I am Savanna Hitlan and I am the President of Phi Alpha Theta (PAT), the history honors […]

The Center for Entrepreneurship invites you to join us on Tuesday, November 19th from 6:30PM-7:30PM in APEX Commons for desserts, discussion, and Ryan Florio, TeaEO of Inca Tea, where he will share how he quit h […]

This Mexican Village’s Embroidery Designs Are Admired (and Appropriated) Globally
Where it would be easy to assume that the American perspective of Latin America would glorify the American perspective. Rather, t […]

I write to share an invitation from Phi Alpha Theta president Savanna Hitlan:

Dear All,

Hello! I am Savanna Hitlan and I am the President of Phi Alpha Theta (PAT), the history honors society on campus. I […]

I mainly know where my mother’s side is from. My great grandfather was from Croatia. At the age of either 14 or 16, his oldest brother died in a war for Hungary. His mother decided she was not going to lose […]

There is nothing much about my parent. As I know from my grandfather, when he were borned, he already close to the city where we are living now. So I guess my parent is 99% Vietnamese, and moreover we are Hanoian […]

My great great grandfather on my father’s father’s side had an extremely eventful life. Eugene Wasserzug was born in Warsaw, Poland around 1831. After attending multiple universities to train as a doctor, he was […]

I was impressed with David Kline when he was explaining the dietary advantages that came with his lifestyle.  He eats a healthy organic diet […]

My family’s migration story isn’t very unique or special. From what I know, my mother’s side of the family came from Sweden. They moved to Andersonville in Chicago, the Swedish area. My father’s side came from Ir […]

The migration of my family has been wildly different on my paternal and maternal sides. I’ll begin with my mother’s side as I know less about it. My great-grandparents on her side were from India, part of the […]

My family’s migration is extraordinarily common amongst people today. Aside from one very distant relation from early America most of us came from industrial revolution immigrates looking for opportunity. My […]

Remember about two or three years ago when the trend of sending in some of your DNA to 23 and me, or ancestry.com was popular? Well my parents decided to participate and therefore sell their genetic information […]