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Appendices: Impunity for Acts of Peremptory Enslavement

Appendices: Impunity for Acts of Peremptory Enslavement: James Madison, the U.S. Congress, and the Saint Domingue Refugees Read full article from the July 2022 William & Mary Quarterly here. Appendix 1: English translation of the petition Appendix 2: French transcription of the petition   |   Appendix 3: Transcription of the signatures   |   Appendix 4: Scan of the

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Pantomime Indian: Supplement

Monica Anke Hahn, “Pantomime Indian: Performing the Encounter in Robert Sayer’s Harlequin Cherokee,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 78, no. 1 (January 2021): 117–46. Robert Sayer, Harlequin Cherokee or the Indian Chiefs in London, bk. 12 (London, 1772), Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Publisher and print seller Robert

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Hidden in Plain Sight: Escaped Slaves In Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Jamaica

Hidden In Plain Sight: Escaped Slaves in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Jamaica Simon P. NewmanSimon P. Newman is Sir Denis Brogan Professor of American History at the University of Glasgow. The author would like to thank David Ely, Anthony King, and Marenka Thompson-Odlum for their contributions to the article, and Kelly Crawford and Kim

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