The Americas in the modern era (1800 – 1914). Revolutions, industry, nation-states and empires that spanned the globe. These articles cover the long nineteenth century.
Jefferson's orders of June 20, 1803, and the journals' dated lines from Camp Dubois, May 14, 1804, to Ordway's "finis" at St. Louis, September 23, 1806.
· 1804Enslaved people rose in Saint-Domingue in 1791, outlasted Spain, Britain and Napoleon, declared Haiti in 1804, then paid former slaveholders until 1888.
· 1804Lincoln's proclamation freed the enslaved in ten rebel states, exempted 13 Louisiana parishes and 55 Virginia counties, and skipped the border states.
· 1863
