How do we make a "sound judgment" in a culturally diverse society? How do we know the best path to follow in an interdependent world? These stories, based on social-studies, help us to understand that personal and environmental relationships impact our lives and our world.
Slave pens, in Washington, are near America's Capitol Building and the White House in 1841.
Although Jefferson is a product of a slave-owning culture, he believes that equal rights apply to all men.
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.
Henry Northup tells Platt (Solomon Northup) to throw down his sack because his "cotton-picking days are over."
Somalia, an ancient country in Africa, is made up mostly of Muslims who wage war on each other. The US and other countries send aid to this poor and h...
Read an excerpt fromThe Harp Weaver and Other PoemsbyEdna St Vincent Millay.
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