All Posts Tagged With: "emancipation"
Greatest Emancipations: How the West Abolished Slavery
From time immemorial until the eighteenth century, slavery was an accepted fact of life in most of the world. It was hardly ever questioned, and there were no mass movements calling for its abolition. That finally changed as a result of the success of capitalism. Once people no longer had to labor unceasingly just to [...]
23Sep2009 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedA Student’s Essay That Changed the World
As a former university professor, I read thousands of student-authored essays through the years—sometimes joyously, but probably just as often, painfully. Occasionally, the process of researching and writing exerted significant influence over a student’s future interests, thinking, and perhaps even behavior. But of all the student essays ever written anywhere, I doubt that any had [...]
1May2005 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | ContinuedEmancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War
Mr. Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and columnist for The Freeman. He is the author of several books, most recently, Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. Is there anything new that could conceivably be written about the Civil War? No other conflict so enthralls U.S. amateur historians. [...]
1Dec1996 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | Continued-
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