Smith County Animal Control Supervisor Amber Greene testified before a Texas House of Representatives committee this week to ...

They couldn’t. It was 1795, and the yellow fever—which had burned through Philadelphia two years earlier, killing more than 10 percent of the city’s population—had arrived in New York.

Tula was one of a group of 50 captive slaves who downed tools on the Kenepa plantation on August 17, 1795, and marched towards the island’s capital, Willemstad, to demand their freedom. Prime minister ...