Are people born free? Do governments give rights to citizens or do citizens give-up some rights in exchange for good government? These are stories about people seeking and achieving their civil rights.
Slavery is a big business in the American colonies.
For 18 years, William Wilberforce pleads with Members of the House of Commons that Parliament must abolish the slave-trade. On February 23, 1807, Par...
Queen Elizabeth I did not think 12 million Africans should be taken as slaves.
Wolfe Tone and his colleagues rebel against British rule by forming the Society of United Irishmen.
Henry Northup tells Platt (Solomon Northup) to throw down his sack because his "cotton-picking days are over."
Students will understand how colonists became American citizens Indicator 2-2.3
Native Americans Indicator SC 8-1.1
Patriots, Tories/Loyalist, women, enslaved/free Africans, and Native Americans Indicator 8-2.4
South Carolina History Standard 8-5.5 Compare Industrial development in South Carolina to the rest of the United States
Former slaves tell of the pain of losing their families to slave trading. Because America had chattel slavery, where people were treated like property...
Tone and his Frenchmen fail to invade Ireland in 1796.
With her father's support Susan B. Anthony fights against discrimination.
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