In May 1752 the French minister of the navy, Antoine de Rouillé, wrote to the governor of Saint-Domingue about the new problem of slaves in France. Slaves were “multiplying every day, more and more, ...

The Declaration of Independence condemns King George III. But the British were not to blame for one of the war’s most infamous conflagrations. The recent resettlement of a few dozen Afrikaner ...