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4 giorni fa · Section 7. And be it further enacted, That any person who shall knowingly and willingly obstruct, hinder, or prevent such claimant, his agent or attorney, or any person or persons lawfully assisting him, her, or them, from arresting such a fugitive from service or labor, either with or without process as aforesaid, or shall rescue, or attempt ...
2 giorni fa · A lot happened in crypto today! Cointelegraph explores the latest events impacting the Bitcoin price, altcoins, DeFi, Web3, NFTs and more.
2 giorni fa · 1837. The policy of protection for Aboriginal people marks the beginning of involvement of the Catholic Church in missionary work and the establishment of schools for Aboriginal children. 1848. The Board of National Education, established in NSW, states “It is impractical to provide any form of education for the children of blacks”. 1870.
2 giorni fa · Slavery has historically been widespread in Africa. Systems of servitude and slavery were common in parts of Africa in ancient times, as they were in much of the rest of the ancient world. [1] When the trans-Saharan slave trade, Red Sea slave trade, Indian Ocean slave trade and Atlantic slave trade (which started in the 16th century) began ...
4 giorni fa · In 1850 was exhibited 'Napoleon's Passage over the Alps;' in this picture were represented some fifty thousand men in motion, who, in the front, appeared of life-size, and who, in fact, were living men, but who were made, by an optical illusion, to dwindle gradually at different distances to the veriest specks which the eye could track along the zigzag line of ascent towards the summit of the ...
4 giorni fa · Some juries exercised their right of jury nullification and refused to convict those indicted under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. After the passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Act in 1854, armed conflict broke out in Kansas Territory , where the question of whether it would be admitted to the Union as a slave state or a free state had been left to the inhabitants.
3 giorni fa · It could be upset by trade depression, as happened in the early 1840s. Thus in 1841 wages in the silk industry fell 50 per cent. and unemployment rose. (fn. 107) Two years later it was reported that 'bread, potatoes, and tea constituted the staple diet' of the Coventry workers and that inability to maintain decent appearances in clothing and household comforts was leading to a 'low and ...
