slavery
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Charles Jackson was a religious man, and his son was brought up in the church - a traditional focus for black political resistance since the time of American slavery.
From BBC
Here is the quintessential Westerner about to transform himself from Honest Abe the rail-splitter into Father Abraham, the avuncular statesman capable of handling the looming crisis over disunion and slavery.
Dan leads the Seder in such a brusque way that his wife reflects, “on this night my husband is a control freak. That’s how he celebrates freedom from slavery.”
Lincoln may be best known for saving the Union and abolishing slavery, but “Boss Lincoln” contends that “party organization” was “Lincoln’s life’s work.”
Giving examples of his office's work, Turk said it supported 67,000 survivors of torture and modern slavery, documented tens of thousands of human rights violations and exposed discrimination in more than 100 countries.
From Barron's
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