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Ben Franklin and others signing the Treaty of Paris

A tax collector is tarred and feathered by anti-tax frontiersmen during the Whiskey Rebellion. Violent Protesters take action against a tax collector to rebel again the new excise tax.

Portrait of Andrew Jackson

Hand-colored lithograph by Nathaniel Currier, 1846

On August 9th the BPM organized a demonstation to protest police brutality against the Mangrove restaurant and AfroCaribbeans.

Altheia Jones-Lecointe was arrested on the 9th of August by Scotland Yard Police during the Mangrove demonstration.

In March of 1968, Trinidadian-native Frank Crichlow established the Caribbean eatery. Deriving its name from the tropical Mangrove forests in Trinidad, Crichlow opened the Black West Indian restaurant at 8 All Saints Road, Notting Hill. In Trinidad,…

Nancy Morgan Hart in her house with British Soldiers, armed with a gun

The title page of Noah Webster's American Spelling Book

1844 edition of Noah Webster's The American Spelling Book