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Cartwright, John. 1740-1824. English reformer for universal male suffrage, abolition of slavery.
Carver, George W. 1864-1943. US agriculturalist. Former slave.
Compromise of 1850. Acts to prevent secession of US slave states.
Concentration Camps. 1862-65 USA. 1899-1902. British internment of Boers in South Africa. 1922-91. USSR. 1933-45 Nazi prisons for extermination and slave labour. Buchenwald. Auschwitz. Dachau. 1942-6 US Relocation Centers. 1942-46 Canada. 1950’s Kenya. 1973 Chile.
Constitution, US. 1787. Effective 1789. Defines government, liberties, basic laws. Amendments I-X 1791 Bill of Rights. XIII 1865 Abolishes slavery. XVIII 1919 Prohibition. XIX 1920 Women suffrage. XXI 1933 Repeals Prohibition. XXVI 1971 Voting age 18.
Crassus, Marcus. c115-53BC. First Roman triumvirate member. Suppressed Spartacus’ slave revolt.
Crusades. 1095-1272. European Christian wars to regain Holy Land after Seljuk Turks take Jerusalem in 1072. Literature and the arts benefitted from Eastern cultural infusion. Peasants 1096. Annihilated. First. 1096-99. Genoa financed Godfrey of Bouillon to recapture Jerusalem. Only successful crusade. Second. 1147-49. Louis VII and Conrad III pillage Byzantium. Third. 1189-92. Richard I and Philip II Truce with Saladin allows access to Jerusalem. Fourth. 1202-4. French and Flemish nobles conquer, sack Constantinople, form Latin Empire. Childrens. 1212. Stephen of Cloyes led 30,000 unarmed French youths. Nicholas of Cologne led 20,000 German. All died or enslaved. Fifth. 1218-21. John of Brienne in Egypt. Sixth. 1228-29. Frederick II crowned king of Jerusalem. Seventh. 1248-54. St Louis of France captured by Egypt and ransomed. Eighth. 1270. St Louis dies of plague. Ninth. 1271-2. Prince Edward of England.
Cuba. Ciboney, Arawak. 1492 Columbus discovers. 1511 Spanish colony. 1517 Slaves brought. 1898 US. Spanish-American War. 1902 Republic. 1957-9 Castro Revolution, Communist dictatorship.
Derby, Earl of. 1799-1869. English Prime Minister 1852, 58, 66. Abolition of slavery.
Dessalines, Jacques. c1758-1806. Cruel ex-slave Emperor of Haiti 1804-.
Douglass, Frederick. 1817-95. US ex-slave abolitionist leader.
Dred Scott. 1857. US Supreme Court ruled slaves had no rights in court. Missouri Compromise invalid.
Emancipation Act. 1833. Freed slaves in British Empire.
Emancipation Proclamation. 1863. Lincoln frees all slaves in Confederacy.
Epictetus. 1 C. Stoic ex-slave, philosopher.
Exodus. 13C BC. Jews escape Egyptian slavery. Moses. Ten Commandments.
Free-Soil Party. 1848-54. US anti-slavery party. Van Buren.
Freedmen. Released slaves in Rome, Athens, US South.
Freedmen’s Bureau. 1865-72. US agency to help freed slaves during Reconstruction.
Gag Rules. 1836-44. Prevented discussion of anti-slavery bills in US Congress.
Garrison, William. 1805-79. US anti-slavery promoter. Weekly Liberator 1831-65.
Greeley, Horace. 1811-72. US founder of New Yorker, NY Tribune. Slavery critic. -“Go west, young man!”
Grenville, William. 1759-1834. British statesman. Ministry of All Talents 1806-7. Abolished Slave Trade, 1807.
Guinea-Bissau. 1446 Tristao discovers. 16-18C Slave source. 1879 Portuguese Guinea. 1974 Independent.
Haiti. Arawak. 1492 Columbus discovers. 16-18C Slaves brought. 1697 Spain cedes to France 1804 Independent. 1915-34 US occupies. 1957-86 Duvalier dictators. 1994 US overthrow of military regime. 1972-2002 US returns refugee boat-people.