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 My Escape From Slavery, by Frederick Douglass; My Escape From Slavery Page 1
It was, therefore, an act of supreme trust on the part of a freeman of color thus to put in jeopardy his own liberty that another might be free.
A failure on the part of the fugitive to send back the papers would imperil his benefactor, and the discovery of the papers in possession of the wrong man would imperil both the fugitive and his friend.
It was, however, not unfrequently bravely done, and was seldom discovered.
www.pagebypagebooks.com /Frederick_Douglass/My_Escape_From_Slavery/My_Escape_From_Slavery_p1.html

  
 Eureka Springs Arkansas Ozark Mountains 19th century Victorian village
An authentic 19th century Victorian resort, tucked in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas and encircled by two beautiful lakes and two scenic rivers, it is a magical place filled with old-world charm and European flavor.
Eureka Springs Arkansas Ozark Mountains 19th century Victorian village
Come discover why the National Trust for Historic Preservation has named Eureka Springs one of America's Distinctive Destinations for being one of the best-preserved and most unique communities in the United States.
www.eurekasprings.org   (304 words)

  
 French Culture Art David to Cezanne: 19th-Century French Drawings, Morgan Library NY
David to Cézanne: Nineteenth-Century French Drawings is made possible by a bequest from Lore Heinemann and by Janine Luke and Melvin R. Seiden, with additional assistance from the Thaw Charitable Trust.
David to Cézanne: Nineteenth-Century French Drawings is the Morgan's first large-scale exhibition of French nineteenth-century drawings from its holdings.
In 1986 it mounted an exhibition of French drawings from this period.
www.frenchculture.org /art/events/02morganfromdavid.html   (197 words)

  
 Trust - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trust (19th century), an entity used in the late 19th century with intent to create a monopoly
Trust law, where ownership and management of property is on behalf of another
Trusted system, a system where there is no choice but to trust
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trust   (234 words)

  
 Sociology (from social science) --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
At the very end of the 19th century, in both France and Germany, there appeared some of the works in sociology that were to prove most lasting in their effects upon 20th-century sociology.
Sociology came into being in precisely these terms, and during much of the century it was not easy to distinguish between a great deal of so-called sociology and social or cultural anthropology.
Even if almost no sociologists in the century made empirical studies of primitive peoples, as did the anthropologists, their interest in the origin, development, and probable future of mankind was not less great than what could be found in the writings of the anthropologists.
www.britannica.com /ebc/article-38926   (1388 words)

  
 AsianWeek: News: Washington Journal
Just like the Chinese and Chinese American railroad and mining workers in late19th century America, who had to call on the Chinese Embassy when their lives or rights were jeopardized, Asians and Asian Americans in the early 20th century had to use the muscle of our ancestral countries in order to get our rights upheld.
While 19th century Chinese American laundry owners won a series of landmark Supreme Court battles such as Yick Wo v.
Labor unions, which had sometimes taken nativist (anti-foreigner) roles in the 19th century, became advocates for Asian American empowerment in the 20th.
www.asianweek.com /2000_01_06/news_washj.html   (1380 words)

  
 Trust - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trust (19th century), an entity used in the late 19th century with intent to create a monopoly
Trust (band), was a French hard rock band, rose to fame around 1980
Trusted system, a system where there is no choice but to trust
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trust   (228 words)

  
 Trust - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trust (19th century), an entity used in the late 19th century with intent to create a monopoly
Trust (band), was a French hard rock band, rose to fame around 1980
Trust Company (band), better known as TRUSTcompany or TRUST*CO, is an American grunge band that started in the early 2000s
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trust   (228 words)

  
 Trust - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trust (19th century), an entity used in the late 19th century with intent to create a monopoly
Trusted system, a system where there is no choice but to trust
Web of trust, a system to establish authenticity
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trust   (228 words)

  
 Trust - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trust (19th century), an entity used in the late 19th century with intent to create a monopoly
Trusted system, a system where there is no choice but to trust
Trust (band), was a French hard rock band, rose to fame around 1980
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trust   (217 words)

  
 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> trust
Trust (19th century), an entity used in the late 19th century with intent to create a monopoly
Trust (band), was a French hard rock band, rose to fame around 1980
Trust law, where ownership and management of property is on behalf of another
www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/trust   (190 words)

  
 Drainage water mills marshland relics of the Norfolk Broads East Anglia.
The third, the late 19th century Berney High Mill (TG465050) on the River Yare at the south-western edge of Breydon Water, is maintained by English Heritage and, at 22 metres, is the highest working mill in the country.
Thereafter, mills could be taller with longer sails and thus more powerful which explains why many towers in Broadland were heightened during the 19th century.
Now with the Broads Authority, the Norfolk Windmills Trust, and many individuals on the case, their future looks reasonably secure.
www.norfolkbroads.com /interest/mills.html   (1625 words)

  
 Trust - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trust (19th century), an entity used in the late 19th century with intent to create a monopoly
Investment trust, a company that invests in other companies or properties
Trust (band), was a French hard rock band, rose to fame around 1980
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trust   (228 words)

  
 M.A.D. Dealer Database
19th-century furniture, braided and hooked rugs, primitives, iron, Limoges, white ironstone, dark blue Staffordshire, Mulberry, brown transferware, flow blue, sterling and coin, bottles, flasks, lamps, fluid oil and electric, Sandwich glass.
American 18th- and 19th-century furniture including original paint.
American country furniture and accessories including yellowware, yellow ware, white ironstone, period frames and mirrors, baskets, Southern, Currier & Ives prints, garden items, tinware and wireware.
www.maineantiquedigest.com /dealers/all_dealers.html   (228 words)

  
 India Habitat Centre - IHC Visual Art Gallery - December 2001
Italian textiles of the 19th Century belonging to the Arte Sati Rana Trust of Italy will be on show at the Gallery.
As part of our outreach programme the Visual Arts Gallery of the India Habitat Centre has extended it's exhibition space to the Open Plam Court and developing it as a venue for showcasing design, decorative arts, handicrafts, lifestyle and trens.
Xerox PARC and DMO presents: The Crossing: Living, Dying and Transformation in Banaras.
www.indiahabitat.org /vag/cal_dec2k1.htm   (486 words)

  
 California Indian History
The Modocs spectacular 1872 resistance to removal to the Oregon territory was the last heroic military defense of native sovereignty in 19th century California Indian History.
At first the state was enthusiastic over the prospect of increasing its tax base with the anticipation of the privatization of federal trust properties.
Massive Indian revolts among the Pueblo Indians of the Rio Grande in the late 17th century provided the Franciscan padres with an argument to establish missions relatively free from colonial settlers.
ceres.ca.gov /nahc/califindian.html   (8338 words)

  
 Macedonia - United Macedonians Organization of Canada
We are on the verge of an historical revolution, poised to cast away the shackles of the 19th century’s politically motivated and nationalistically energized, historical mentality.
If the Pelasgi, the ancient pre-Hellenic people, who occupied Greece before the 12th century BC, and who were said to have inhabited Thrace, Argos, Crete, and Chalcidice, had their own alphabet, it unquestionably predated the alleged import of the Greek from the Phoenician.
The gist of Renfrew’s assertions is that archeology simply does not support the conclusions of conflict and suppression of the pre-Indo-Europeans in the 4th millennium BC theretofore postulated by the Kurgan Theory.
www.unitedmacedonians.org /macedonia/stefov17.html   (8338 words)

  
 Reculver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After the towers collapsed during a storm in the 19th century, the site was bought from the parish by Trinity House in 1810.
Kent Wildlife Trust offers information on events and activities at Reculver, contact the Information Centre on 01227 740676 (during opening hours only) or John Wilson on 0780 856 8821.
Its main features are the ruins of a Roman Fort and a country park which houses an interpretation centre run by the Kent Wildlife Trust.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reculver   (8338 words)

  
 Welcome to the East Midlands Museums Service web site.
Displays include: The history of the house; Northampton life from the cradle to the grave; Northamptonshire's military history, at home and abroad; a 19th century costume gallery.
Other displays include: fine and decorative art; the development of Northampton from the Stone Age to the 20th century; and temporary exhibitions.
The Museum houses relics of the ironstone quarry that closed in the 1930s.
www.emms.org.uk /northamp.htm   (8338 words)

  
 Norfolk Mills - Home
By the 19th century only 80 or 90 watermills were still functioning but there were still 300 - 400 windmills in the county.
At the time of Domesday, in the 11th century, there were some 580 recorded watermills in Norfolk, but no windmills.
In 1939 Claude Messent recorded that there were only 60 watermills still standing and by 2004 the number had gone down to 52 with only around 20 still containing any remnants of machinery and many have now disappeared completely.
www.norfolkmills.co.uk   (812 words)

  
 Trust-busting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term became common in the late 19th century, when a system of trusts controlled much of the economy of the United States.
Trusts were large business entities that largely succeeded in controlling a market, essentially becoming a monopoly.
Theodore Roosevelt is the U.S. president most associated with dissolving trusts, but his chosen successor, William Howard Taft, actually began the most of the anti-trust proceedings.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trust-busting   (218 words)

  
 Trust (19th century) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A trust or business trust was a form of business entity used in the late 19th century with intent to create a monopoly.
They were often created when corporate leaders convinced (or coerced) the shareholders of all the companies in one industry to convey their shares to a board of trustees, in exchange for dividend-paying certificates.
Some but not all were organized as trusts in the legal sense.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trust_(19th_century)   (191 words)

  
 Trust
The term became common in the late 19th century, when a system of trusts controlled much of the economy of the United States.
In cryptography, trust is either of two related concepts - how much one trusts another person to introduce keys, and how confident one is that a given key has a given owner.
In sociology, trust is willing acceptance of one person's power to affect another.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/t/tr/trust.html   (308 words)

  
 National Trust of Australia (Tasmania)
Visit Runnymede - enter the 19th century world of the lawyer, the bishop and the mariners.
Runnymede is an ideal location for any event calling for an elegant or special venue, such as a wedding ceremony, reception or photographs, cocktail party, dinner, anniversary celebration, seminar, baby naming ceremony, or post-funeral reception.
The Bayleys and their Bayly descendants occupied Runnymede for the next hundred years, and gave it a distinctive maritime atmosphere with their ship's paintings, notable scrimshaw collection and whaling artifacts.
www.tased.edu.au /tasonline/nattrust/runny.htm   (308 words)

  
 River Stour, Suffolk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The River Stour Trust, a waterway restoration group, was set up in 1968 and has restored the Gasworks Cut and the 19th century Granary Building, now used as the Trust's Headquarters.
The River Stour is a river in East Anglia, England.
RSPB Stour Estuary is a nature reserve managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/River_Stour,_Suffolk   (148 words)

  
 News: Leverhulme Trust grants awarded
Dr Arthur MacGregor and Professor Nicholas Mayhew at the Ashmolean Museum will make the artefact collection and documentary archives of the 19th century archaeologist, numismatist and geologist Sir John Evans available as a comprehensive research resource.
Oxford University has won support from the Leverhulme Trust totalling more than £640,000 for both humanities and science research projects.
www.admin.ox.ac.uk /po/news/2004-05/jul/26.shtml   (229 words)

  
 Dedham: Introduction British History Online
(Footnote 65) The River Stour Navigation Co. made the river navigable between 1705 and 1713, and the lock at Dedham mill was rebuilt many times in the later 18th century and the 19th.
(Footnote 36) The National Trust acquired land in the parish from the 1940s; by 1992 it owned over 300 a.
Meadow along the Stour lies on alluvium, but the town stands on an area of river gravel which extends west, south, and east of the settlement, and land at Gun hill on the western parish boundary is formed of other gravels.
www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=15217   (5407 words)

  
 River Stour, Suffolk -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
The (Click link for more info and facts about River Stour Trust) River Stour Trust, a (Click link for more info and facts about waterway restoration) waterway restoration group, was set up in 1968 and has restored the Gasworks Cut and the 19th century Granary Building, now used as the Trust's Headquarters.
The River Stour is a (A large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)) river in (A region of eastern England that was formerly a kingdom) East Anglia, (A division of the United Kingdom) England.
The Stour valley has been portrayed as a working river by (English landscape painter (1776-1837)) John Constable, (English portrait and landscape painter (1727-1788)) Thomas Gainsborough and (Click link for more info and facts about Paul Nash) Paul Nash.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ri/river_stour,_suffolk.htm   (255 words)

  
 Out of Oblivion: A landscape through time
During the later 19th century access to the woodland by local people was hotly contested with its then owner the Duke of Devonshire as recorded in James Crowther’s book ‘Silva Gars’.
The Trust is gradually removing these and allowing the natural woodland to regenerate.
There is a small car park in a quarry on the right after about 1.5 miles with a Yorkshire Wildlife Trust information board.
www.outofoblivion.org.uk /record.asp?id=247   (255 words)

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