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Roots (the 2016 version atleast) has plot about Kunta Kinte's daughter being befriended by a plantation owners daughter. Is this a plausible situation? In the antebellum south were white children alowed to play with slave children?	1
are there any known cases of slaves been taken to the Americas via the Middle Passage, then later being freed and making their way back to west Africa somehow?	1
back when before TV when cinema cartoon shorts were common, were the same shorts always put with the same movies (as is the case when they rarely get made today) or was the theater free to put any movie with any cartoon they wanted?	1
how was the vodka industry effected by the Russian revolution?	1
do/did most people (in general not just on here) think that regardless of what she did or didn't do good or bad, the unions were too powerful in Britain before Thatcher?	1
When did the concept of communism and/or socialism become common knowledge in Eroupe and/or North America?	1
why did the English aristocracy stop speaking French?	1
Did Gallienus spend any of his reign actually in the city of Rome, or was he on campaign the entire 8 years?	1
Suppose you're a typical 17 year old Russian boy living in St Petersburg/Leningrad in 1957. If you were to visit New York, what do you think would surprise you due to the contrast between the reality & what you've been told about the west?	1
did the republican era romans make any kind of organised attempt to find out the likely results of an election in advance of holding it (IE did they have an equivalent of polling) or did they just go by gossip & popular opinion until the votes were counted?	1

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