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Civil War Times April 2006 Gregory J. Wallance	Dred Scott Decision: The Lawsuit That Started The Civil War Slavery, threats of secession and other factors made America a tinderbox in 1857 -- all it needed was a match.
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British Heritage May 2007 Andrea Curry	Timeline: The Abolition of the Slave Trade Adam Smith predicted in 1763 that power- and profit-hungry human nature would never allow the widespread abolition of slavery. Nevertheless, in at least a partial victory over human nature, in early 1807 the House of Commons voted, 283 to 16, to abolish the British slave trade.
Salon.com May 30, 2000 David Horowitz	The latest civil rights disaster Ten reasons why reparations for slavery are a bad idea for black people -- and racist too.
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Civil War Times May 2007 Chuck Leddy	Boston Combusts: The Fugitive Slave Case of Anthony Burns An eruption in the nation's abolitionist capital nearly seven years before Fort Sumter foreshadowed the irreconcilable divide between North and South and the fracture to come.
Reason April 2007 Amy Sturgis	Florida's Forgotten Rebels With the Web doc, Rebellion: John Horse and the Black Seminoles, the First Black Rebels to Beat American Slavery, a nonprofessional historian has illustrated not just an important part of the American past but also one of the ways cyberspace is changing how history is studied and taught.
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Salon.com June 12, 2000 David Horowitz	Stuck on Oprah Earl Ofari Hutchinson sets up a straw woman to knock down my arguments against reparations, and he fails.
Reason April 2002 Mark Goldblatt	America's Black History Given the history of slavery, is black patriotism possible? Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism, by Roger Wilkins, tries to answer that question...
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American History October 22, 2004 Jason Emerson	Robert Todd Lincoln: Perpetual Non-Candidate Living in the shadow of his revered father, Robert Todd Lincoln served the Republican Party and his country with distinction. But while perennially courted by his party, he steadfastly refused a presidential or vice presidential nomination.
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ifeminists December 2, 2003 Rex Curry	Mistress and Slav? Los Angeles officials have asked that suppliers of computer equipment stop using the terms "master" and "slave," saying such terms are offensive. The terms are sometimes used in reference to computer equipment.
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Salon.com January 30, 2001 Joe Conason	The artful dodger John Ashcroft's nose is growing faster than Pinocchio's during his Senate confirmation hearings. As attorney general, will he be as evasive with the truth?
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Smithsonian September 2005 Paul Raffaele	Born into Bondage Despite denials by government officials, slavery remains a way of life in the African nation of Niger.
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