"We would explain that's a 19th-century term for people of African descent ... In his community, there were free Black folks in New Jersey, but also there would have been some enslaved folks ...
there were a series of lines drawn by “compromising” Congresses throughout the first half of the 19th century), slaves must have resided below it and free black people above it, with every man ...
At the beginning of the 19th century very few people in Africa were practising Christians apart from Ethiopians, Coptic Egyptians and people living in the remnants of the Kongolese Empire (modern ...