Knowledge Tree
New England
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Slavery vs Servitude - The Shirley-Eustis House shirleyeustishouse.org 2 facts
quote“...racist ideas were nearly two centuries old when Puritans used them in the 1630s to legalize and codify New England slavery – and Virginians had done the same in the 1620s.”
quoteIbram Kendi writes in 'Stamped from the Beginning': "...racist ideas were nearly two centuries old when Puritans used them in the 1630s to legalize and codify New England slavery – and Virginians had done the same in the 1620s."
Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Brown University slaveryandjusticereport.brown.edu 2 facts
claimMany New England-born Brown University graduates migrated south after graduation to work as merchants, lawyers, planters, teachers, and clergymen, facilitated by business and family ties between Rhode Island and the South.
claimNew England's wealth in the eighteenth century was derived from slave-produced sugar, while its nineteenth-century wealth was derived from slave-produced cotton.
Impact of carbon dioxide removal technologies on deep ... - Nature nature.com Jun 17, 2021 1 fact
claimConstraining CO2 pipelines only impacts New England because it is the only model region without geologic storage capacity.
Biases in Behavioral Finance - World Scholars Review worldscholarsreview.org Sep 15, 2024 1 fact
claimSeo et al. (2010) examined the role of affect (pleasant or unpleasant feelings) and decision frames (gains or losses) in risk-taking during stock investment simulations in the New England area.
Clean Energy Solutions Must Include Nuclear | ClearPath clearpath.org 1 fact
accountDuring the winter of 2017–2018, New England faced a risk of rolling blackouts because natural gas deliveries, constrained by pipeline capacity, could not meet the demand for residential heating and power generation. ISO New England warned that under similar conditions, the loss of power from the Seabrook nuclear power plant in New Hampshire could trigger major outages.