Colonial tax records hold 3 lessons for South Africa today – economic historian

In 1825, a tax collector compiling a census in South Africa’s Cape Colony paused to write a poem in the margin of his work.
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Researchers Sifting Through Colonial-Era Trash Heap May Have Discovered the Fate of Roanoke

As the tragic legend goes, British colonists who were settled on North Carolina’s Roanoke Island in 1587 disappeared at some time over the next three years and were lost to history. Starvation and ...
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In Yemen, Queen Elizabeth’s death recalls memories of Britain’s colonial rule

ADEN, Yemen (AP) — In 1954, large crowds turned out for a historic visit by Queen Elizabeth II to Aden. At the time, this city on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula was a colony of the British ...
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Is Germany Finally Dealing With Its Abusive Colonial History?

A top German official gave a strong speech on the need for Germany to reckon with its abusive colonial past in Cameroon, a German colony between 1884 and 1919, and other former German colonies. Katja ...
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Were there sinister motives behind founding Liberia?

Faced with injustice in the land of their enslavement, oppressed people might find the offer of a new country, with the chance for freedom and prosperity, attractive. During the early 1800s in the U.S ...