All posts tagged "trade"
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8.5K2ConnecticutDutch Elm Disease, the Nightmare on Elm Street
When Dutch elm disease first appeared in southwestern Connecticut, horrified New Englanders responded immediately to save their beloved elms, state agriculture experts...
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8.3K2ConnecticutSamuel Maverick Writes A Guide to the Wonders of New England – in 1660
Samuel Maverick, as his name suggests, didn’t like to go along with the crowd. The Puritan crowd, that is. He came to...
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7.8K6Business and LaborThe Dutch in New England: More Than Sinterklaas and Koekjes
Today the remnants of the colonial Dutch in New England are pretty much limited to the region’s outer rim: At Smith’s Castle...
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17.1K2MassachusettsHow the Codfish Started the American Revolution
The American Revolution was to some extent a fight over the big, stupid, slow-moving codfish. Codfish were by far colonial New England’s...
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9.2K1MassachusettsSeven Fun Facts About Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass rose from slavery in the South to international prominence as a writer, orator and anti-slavery activist. He didn’t spend a...
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8.0K3MassachusettsJames Somerset, the Boston Runaway Who Ended Slavery in England
In 1771, James Somerset languished in an English prison ship that would soon set sail for Jamaica. There, James Somerset would be...
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