(WHTM) Pennsylvania had slaves before Pennsylvania was even Pennsylvania. Dutch and Swedish settlers in the Delaware Valley held Africans as slaves. When William Penn and the Society of Friends ...
Two hundred years ago, New York passed a law that ended slavery in the Empire State. The anniversary of the March 31, 1817, act came and went without much fanfare; this is probably the first you have ...
As early as 1688, four German Quakers in Germantown near Philadelphia protested slavery in a resolution that condemned the "traffic of Men-body." By the 1770s, abolitionism was a full-scale movement ...
I recently debated a pro-war professor on the topic “Is war ever necessary?” (video). I argued for abolishing war. And because people like to see successes before doing something, no matter how ...
NWIG: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, Vol. 99, No. 1/2 (2025), pp. 56-91 (36 pages) This article centers what provision grounds meant to and for Afro-Jamaican apprentice laborers, ...
Shying away from a blanket ban on death penalty the Law Commission is likely to recommend “gradual” abolition in all cases, except terror-related ones, as practiced in countries like the United ...
Taiwan’s Constitutional Court (TCC) will hold a hearing on the constitutionality of the death penalty on Tuesday. This is the first time in Taiwan’s history since its democratic transition that the ...
Opposition representatives have urged the abolition of protectionist measures for the "national car", following the purchase of the 49.9 percent stake in Proton Holdings Bhd by China's Geely ...
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