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As Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, Coen was destined to become his lifelong adversary.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
The white man behind it was Elihu Embree, an iron manufacturer and former slave owner who had evolved, at age thirty, into an abolitionist. Elihu mailed his newspapers to Southern politicians, intent on persuading them to end the horrors of slavery.
Fawn Weaver • Love & Whiskey
a Mallen streak in his hair behind his right ear.
Sarah Hall • The Wolf Border
Two of William’s sisters, Ethelinda Allen (the beneficiary of a $400,000 trust fund) and Marie Alicia La Bau (the recipient of $250,000 of railroad bonds), along with William’s brother, Cornelius Jeremiah Vanderbilt (who had been given only the income from a $200,000 trust fund to be controlled by William), ganged up and decided to contest their
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