colonial
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In 2021, Suriname-born artist Jeangu Macrooy addressed slavery, racism, and the colonial legacy in his performance.
From Barron's • May 16, 2026
“The Complete Notebooks” traces Camus’s development from a budding writer in colonial Algeria to a journalist of the French Resistance to a revered public intellectual.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
What they did share was a brutal colonial past, and a longing to achieve economic self-determination.
From Barron's • May 7, 2026
L.A.’s roots in colonial agriculture run long and deep.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
Some 330,000 enslaved people were brought to the future United States of America, starting in the earliest colonial days to 1775, just before the American Revolution.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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