Ethics Chapters

President Lincoln in his fight to uphold the Union agrees to ban slave trade and admits that the practice is wrong.

Slaves, who are forced to do hard work in the fields growing cotton and other crops, are often abused.

The Underground Railroad is dangerous; many risk their lives both escaping and helping others escape.

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.

People refuse to help each other or the sick and parents abandon children; no one is safe from the possibility of catching the plague.

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."

Refusing to grant access to individuals who can see how the Ukrainian people are starving, Soviet officials assure the world, and their own countrymen...

Benedict Arnold, ageneral for the Continental Army, creates a plan to give up West Point to the British.

Stalin, who succeeds Lenin, is unwilling to allow national patriotism to continue in Ukraine. He enforces repressive policies on the Ukrainian people.