What did the 1807 Slave Act do?

Prohibited the importation of slaves to the United States. Any foreign ships with enslaved Africans had to leave. This was the first federal action aimed directly at reducing the Atlantic slave trade that supplied human property for cotton production and the other slave economies in the American South.

What benifits did Britain bring to india?

Who are the Egyptian gods and what were they of?

A ghost behind the scenes of the Opera
The grand ceremonial staircase leading to the performance hall, salons and foyers of the Paris Opera • WIKIMEDIACOMMONS In September 1909, the Parisian newspaper Le Gaulois publishes the first episode of a soap opera entitled The Phantom of the Opera . The author, Gaston Leroux, who had not yet
Read in combat. The Blue Division Circulating Library
From September 1942 to October 1943, when the staggered withdrawal of the Spanish contingent begins, there was a Mobile or Circulating Library service for the troops, in the Blue Division . The Campaign Sheet , a successful newspaper among divisionalists, published catalogues, lists of book donation
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Philip II therefore deserves his nickname of Conqueror. Yet his reign was not without setbacks; many French kings have known a military fortune equal to his; some have practiced strategy better. Also, what defines him more personally is his sense of organization, his administrative policy. One would
When Euhemerus of Messina found the record of the birth and death of Zeus, Uranus and Cronus
As we already commented in previous articles (those dedicated to Sanjuniatón and Megasthenes) many lost works of Antiquity can be reconstructed to a great extent thanks to the extensive quotations of them found in later authors. Another of these cases is the Historical Library of Diodorus of Sicily,