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The place where I live was first mentioned in a newspaper on 12th November 1754. It had been raining, the story said, and Samuel Oddy was riding back to Horsforth, Yorkshire, after setting his son off on the long journey to London. He crossed a beck, which was “swell’d with the Rains”. Oddy fell. He … Continue reading "The Long Ago Death of Samuel Oddy, Yeoman of Horsforth" The post The Long Ago Death of Samuel Oddy, Yeoman of Horsforth appeared first on Flashbak.

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Africans who were forcibly transported to the Americas during the Atlantic slave trade introduced cultural institutions and intellectual traditions that have been overlooked in dominant narratives of American history, which overwhelmingly emphasize external influences from Europe.

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