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“Marine Corporal Jeremy Dobbins returned to Dayton, Ohio, from duty in Afghanistan with an 80% disability rating and issues with anger. Trained in service to others, veterans often resist the idea that they themselves need help and they have difficulty with sharing their war experiences with family and friends. An oral history project at Wright State University is giving Jeremy and other young veterans a chance to help older veterans recover their stories of war, and to come to terms with their own.”

J.D. Green was born into slavery but spent his life resisting the institution by escaping to freedom five times.

Thomas was born into slavery and lived a harsh life, but he was finally able to escape and reunite with his family.

Article 1, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution, the first clause of which restrains congressional powers with respect to the trade in enslaved persons.

This is an excerpt from a book of stories from the Underground Railroad. It contains an exciting story about escape and several descriptions of formerly enslaved persons.

With this text, the colony of Rhode Island outlawed the importation of enslaved Africans and established the immediate emancipation of enslaved people in the colony in 1774. However, the law stipulated some important exceptions that made this change particularly ineffective.

Slavery has occurred in many forms throughout the world, but the Atlantic slave trade-which forcibly brought more than 10 million Africans to the Americas-stands out for both its global scale and its lasting legacy. Anthony Hazard discusses the historical, economic and personal impact of this massive historical injustice.

In this poem, Ewing imagines the kind of everyday life-including trips to the grocery store-Emmett Till might have experienced had he not been killed.

Elijah McCoy overcame many obstacles to become a renowned inventor who paved the way for others.

A young boy travels with his grandmother to place a “Lost Friends” ad searching for his uncle who was sold by his enslaver and separated from his family before the Civil War.