At any time, at any time while I was a slave, if I had been offered a minute of freedom, and told that I had to die at the end of that minute, I would have taken it, just to know what it was like to be free – Elisabeth Freeman Elisabeth , daughter of slaves from Pieter Hogebooms farm in Claverack
The visitor to the plain of Paramythia, where the area is called airport, will hardly realize that about seven decades ago, the quiet of the small valley was awakened by the hum of engines and that some of the most brilliant pages of the Aviation History of the Second World War in Greece. There was
Seen as the symbol of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery practiced by France, the Code black (or slave policing edict ), compiled by Colbert and which includes sixty articles, aimed to establish the legal status of slaves in the French West Indies. It was promulgated in 1685, the same year as the
We Greeks consider – and rightly so – that the Naval Battle of Salamis is a milestone in Greek history. This victory of the Greeks - those who resisted the Persians - did stop the advance of Xerxes and forced him to abandon his plans to occupy the entire Greek peninsula. However, apart from its impo