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How soon after the popularization of tobacco from colonies like Jamestown do we see it in isolated countries like Japan?
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How were former British colonial soldiers, like the King’s African Rifles, viewed by their respective nations and tribes after achieving independence?
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What accounts for the lack of an indigenous abolition movement in any of the numerous slave states of Africa in the 19th century?
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In today's world a prison record, especially for a black male, is a death sentence many times when it comes to getting hired for a well paying job. In the early 20th century was this true as well?
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I've read that U.S. Commanders blocked African American soldiers postings in Berlin after the end of World War II. Is this true? If so, how long did it last? And were the soldiers allowed to visit there?
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The proselytization and conversion of the Native Americans by the Spanish Conquistadors is known for its incredible brutality. Torture and death or common punishments for refusal to convert. What happened to Christianity in Spain that made this an acceptable means of gaining converts?
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What were the reactions of the Catholic Church and those in the Vatican during the (mostly catholic) Ustashe’s reign of terror, ethnic cleansing, and forced in conversion in the former Yugoslavia?
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Was there a “cult of personality” around Tito in Yugoslavia as their was among Stalin and his “Little Stalins” in the various other Iron Curtain countries?
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In Svetlana Alexievich’s book the Unwomanly Face Of War a few of her interview subjects mentioned how families or relatives that took in their children while they were at the front would refuse to give back their children. Was this common problem or was it relatively isolated?
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