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France was the powerhouse of Europe. It had the continent’s biggest population, a large overseas empire and had become the ...
Some exhibits and events are already underway in Providence and Newport to mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of ...
So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the ...
In just over a decade, enslaved Haitians turned the richest colony in the French empire into the first Black republic through revolution, resistance, and relentless warfare. This video unpacks how ...