Slavery Abolition

Skip to comments. In apparent appeal to President Trump, imprisoned Rod Blagojevich argues todays Democrats would have impeached Abraham LincolnThe Chicago Tribune ^ | January 1, 2020 | Elvia Malagn Posted on 01/02/2020 8:49:28 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks…

CHICAGO -- Imprisoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich argued in a column that fellow Democrats in the U.S. House who impeached President Donald Trump also would have tried to remove Abraham Lincoln. Blagojevich, who is serving a 14-year federal senten…

CHICAGO (AP) Imprisoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich argued in a column that fellow Democrats in the U.S. House who impeached President Donald Trump also would have tried to remove Abraham Lincoln. Blagojevich, who is serving a 14-year federal senten…

In general, unfortunately, the qualifications required to gain power and keep it have almost no connection with those required to govern with competence and impartiality. – Jean-François Revel (1924-2006), French author and philosopher. (In Ni Marx ni Jésus, …

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves, Abraham Lincoln. The headlines are unrelenting: Woman docked for locking maid in the toilet for 20 days Woman called out for burning 10-year-old housemaid with hot iron Police arrest madam w…

I can’t come up with lists like “these are the books I’m reading this Christmas holiday” because I read at most two books at a time slowly and methodically. For my bedtime reading, which gets me through about 10 pages before I get sleepy and turn out the ligh…

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A Peoples History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian is the story of a group of women outsiders who band together and create their own safe haven, the city of Heaven. The women come from different backgrounds and experiences but share a fierce desire to protec…

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We write as historians to express our strong reservations about important aspects of The 1619 Project. The project is intended to offer a new version of American history in which slavery and white supremacy become the dominant organizing themes. The Times has…