7hon MSN
The Erie Canal: How a ‘big ditch’ transformed America’s economy, culture and even religion
Two hundred years ago, the Erie Canal was often derided as a ‘folly.’ Yet the waterway went on to transform the American ...
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Pharaohs in Dixieland – how 19th-century America reimagined Egypt to justify racism and slavery
In the slaveholding South, ancient Egypt and its pharaohs became a way to justify slavery. For abolitionists and African Americans, biblical Egypt served as a symbol of bondage and liberation.
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