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B.C.’s third oldest municipality, North Cowichan, finally gets own mailing address
People in North Cowichan have long listed “Duncan” as their mailing address, but starting in March, Canada Post is officially recognizing the municipality.
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The History of Slavery in the United States From Beginning to End
With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...
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How the final shots of the Civil War came to be fired off the shores of Alaska
Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...
Enslaved people took refuge at pioneering hotel on NC Outer Banks. But perils awaited
A major flash point came when Union soldiers entered Hotel De Afrique and “attacked the defenseless occupants with knives and bayonets,” killing a man known as Galloway or Gallaway, according to ...