A normal platelet count ranges from 150,000 to 450,000 platelets per microliter of blood. Having more than 450,000 platelets is a condition called thrombocytosis; having less than 150,000 is known as thrombocytopenia.
THE APPRENTICESHIP SYSTEM. The term 'emancipation' which was used to describe the Act of 1833 passed by the British Government to put an end to slavery in the British Empire, is ambiguous and misleading. Slaves were not freed in the sense that they were given unrestricted control over their freedom of movement.
Virginia would become the first British colony to legally establish slavery in 1661. Maryland and the Carolinas were soon to follow. The only Southern colony to resist the onset of slavery was Georgia, created as an Enlightened experiment. Seventeen years after its formation, Georgia too succumbed to the pressures of its own citizens and repealed the ban on African slavery.