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The uninterrupted history of blacks in the United States began in 1619, when 20 Africans were landed in the English colony of Virginia. These individuals were not slaves but indentured servants—persons bound to an employer for a limited number of years—as were many of the settlers of European descent (whites). By the 1660s large numbers of Africans were being brought to the English colonies. In 1790 blacks numbered almost 760,000 and made up nearly one-fifth of the population of the United States.
He refused to be commander of the Paris garrison. It was an offered to him by Robespierre but
he decline the offer because he felt there was danger to accepting it. Rather he
took a secret mission to Genoa and when he came back, Robespierre was eliminated
and he was arrested but released on the grounds of lack of evidence.
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Determined to crush the Texas rebels, Santa Anna took command of the Mexican army that invaded Texas in 1836. His forces successfully defeated the Texas rebels at the Alamo, and he personally ordered the execution of 400 Texan prisoners after the Battle of Goliad.
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Historians are divided over what happened to wages during the Industrial Revolution. Everyone agrees that they did increase; the question is, when. ... Most people agree that after about 1840, real wages did better. Nicholas Crafts and Terence Mills shows that from 1840 to 1910, real wages more than doubled.
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