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Hace 21 horas · Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States. For decades, activists and congress members (led by many African Americans) proposed legislation, advocated for, and built support for state and national observances. During his campaign for president in June 2020, Joe Biden publicly celebrated the holiday. [122]
Hace 21 horas · 12 Contemporary abolitionism. 13 See also. Toggle See also subsection. ... became regent in 657 since the king, her son Chlothar III, was only five years old. At some unknown date during her rule, she abolished the trade of slaves, although not slavery. ... The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440–1870 (2006)
Hace 21 horas · Roman mosaic from Dougga, Tunisia (2nd/3rd century AD): two large slaves carrying wine jars each wear an amulet against the evil eye on a necklace, with one in a loincloth (left) and the other in an exomis; the young slave to the left carries water and towels, and the one on the right a bough and a basket of flowers. Slavery in ancient Rome played an important role in society and the economy.
Hace 21 horas · John Jay (December 23 [O.S. December 12], 1745 – May 17, 1829) was an American statesman, diplomat, abolitionist, signatory of the Treaty of Paris, and a Founding Father of the United States.He served from 1789 to 1795 as the first chief justice of the United States and from 1795 to 1801 as the second governor of New York.Jay directed U.S. foreign policy for much of the 1780s and was an ...
Hace 21 horas · Africa's total population surpassing other continents is fairly recent; African population surpassed Europe in the 1990s, while the Americas was overtaken sometime around the year 2000; Africa's rapid population growth is expected to overtake the only two nations currently larger than its population, at roughly the same time – India and China's 1.4 billion people each will swap ranking ...
Hace 21 horas · The 12 Muqams are the national oral epic of the Uyghurs. The muqam system was developed among the Uyghur in northwestern China and Central Asia over approximately the last 1500 years from the Arabic maqamat modal system that has led to many musical genres among peoples of Eurasia and North Africa .
Hace 21 horas · Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America.It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize, to the east by Honduras, and to the southeast by El Salvador.It is hydrologically bordered to the south by the Pacific Ocean and to the northeast by the Gulf of Honduras.. The territory of modern Guatemala hosted the core of the Maya ...
