What the law requires (or allows) is not always fair or just or honorable. Politics is often polarizing. Stories in this collection help us to examine the highs and lows of "the law" over the centuries.
President Lincoln in his fight to uphold the Union agrees to ban slave trade and admits that the practice is wrong.
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.
Henry Northup tells Platt (Solomon Northup) to throw down his sack because his "cotton-picking days are over."
South Carolina History Standard 8-5.5 Compare Industrial development in South Carolina to the rest of the United States
Refusing to grant access to individuals who can see how the Ukrainian people are starving, Soviet officials assure the world, and their own countrymen...
Former slaves tell of the pain of losing their families to slave trading. Because America had chattel slavery, where people were treated like property...
Stalin, who succeeds Lenin, is unwilling to allow national patriotism to continue in Ukraine. He enforces repressive policies on the Ukrainian people.
Bletchely Park has honored Alan Turing with this life-sized statute, created by Stephen Kettle. The work was commissioned by Sidney E. Frank, an Ameri...
A list of facts and events that make the Presidential Inauguration a unique event.
Many Americans protest the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War.
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