John Cabot (ca.1680-1742), founder of the Cabot family in America, immigrated from the Isle of Jersey to Salem, Massachusetts about 1700. Descendants and relati

Despite provocation, Garrison was a proponent of nonresistance during this period, though he continued to advocate the emancipation of slaves. Set against a bac

This book maps the development of a regional elite and its persistence as an economic upper class through the nineteenth century. Farrell's study traces the kin