Account of a visit to New England by an Englishman, consisting mainly of resources that can be extracted from the land or areas that can be used to create “plantations” – agriculture for profit. In a description of the current day York River, he mentions that land has been cleared and planted by indigenous people “who are all dead,” and thus ideal for incoming settlers.
Account of a visit to New England by an Englishman, consisting mainly of resources that can be extracted from the land or areas that can be used to create “plantations” – agriculture for profit. In a description of the current day York River, he mentions that land has been cleared and planted by indigenous people “who are all dead,” and thus ideal for incoming settlers.
Account of a visit to New England by an Englishman, consisting mainly of resources that can be extracted from the land or areas that can be used to create “plantations” – agriculture for profit. In a description of the current day York River, he mentions that land has been cleared and planted by indigenous people “who are all dead,” and thus ideal for incoming settlers.
An image of Black children picking cotton, meant for entertainment viewing using a stereoscope, undercuts the reality of life in the Jim Crow South, in which many Blacks were sharecroppers and circumstances had not changed much since emancipation.
On loan from the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
An image of Black children picking cotton, meant for entertainment viewing using a stereoscope, undercuts the reality of life in the Jim Crow South, in which many Blacks were sharecroppers and circumstances had not changed much since emancipation.
Map showing the flowage of the Merrimack in a time when the current was used to power the turbines that powered the mills. The Essex Company charged its customers for that power and was one of the most powerful companies of its time.
On loan from the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
