When Édouard Manet debuted his painting Olympia in 1865, critics were shocked by a nude who looked like “the Queen of Hearts ...

The first census in 1790 gave just three choices: free white male, free white female or slave. In 1890, the census included categories for octoroon and quadroon to measure those of one-eighth and ...

T71/887: claim from Charles Bean and John Lane, sequestrators of the property of G. Timmerman esq. Counterclaims included the Baillies, as assignees of a mortgage for £10,000.

Simon Lee Trotman, West India merchant, born in Barbados but mostly resident in Cheshire and Lancashire, inherited Bulkeley and Carmichaels estates in Barbados with Ann Trotman and Joseph Trotman ...