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The prosecution and criticism of the transatlantic slave trade year
The punishments took many forms, including whippings, torture, mutilation, imprisonment, and being sold away from the plantation. Slaves were even sometimes murdered. Some masters were more "benevolent" than others and punished less often or severely. -
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Gioachino Rossini existence
Gioachino Rossini was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces, and some sacred music. -
Publishing of Lyrical Ballads
Structure and tone. The core structure for a ballad is a quatrain, written in either abcb or abab rhyme schemes. -
Lord Byron publishes Don Juan.
Don Juan is a satirical poem created by Lord Byron, based on the legend of Don Juan. Lord Byron portrays Don Juan not as a womanizer, but as someone easily seduced by women. -
The harmonica was invented by Friedrich Buschmann.
The harmonica is a member of the Wind instrument family. It originates from Europe and was invented by Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann in 1821. It is sometimes referred to as the French harp and the mouth organ. Harmonicas were appeared in Vienna in 1824. -
The Great Reform Act
The Representation of the People Act 1832, known as the first Reform Act or Great Reform Act: disenfranchised 56 boroughs in England and Wales and reduced another 31 to only one MP. created 67 new constituencies. -
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The existence of Jorge Isaacs
Jorge Ricardo Isaacs Ferrer was a Colombian novelist, writer, poet and politician of the romantic genre. His only novel, María, became one of the most notable works of the Romantic movement in Spanish-language literature. -
The end of romantic period and the start of modernism
However, by 1910, the major characteristics of Romanticism had begun to wane, and a new musical era, known as Modernism, was emerging.