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Shapiro has published numerous articles on language, law, and information science, including "The Politically Correct United States Supreme Court and the Motherfucking Texas Court of Appeals: Using Legal Databases to Trace the Origins of Words and Quotations" [2] and "Who Wrote the Serenity Prayer". [3]
He does not owe and cannot owe service. He cannot even make a contract"; and that the clause giving Congress the power to "suppress Insurrections" (Article I, section 8) gives Congress the power to end slavery "[i]f it should turn out that slavery is a source of insurrection, [and] that there is no security from insurrection while slavery lasts
American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia is a 1975 history text [1] by American historian Edmund Morgan. [2] The work was first published in September 1975 through W W Norton & Co Inc and is considered to be one of Morgan's seminal works.
Niebuhr created the first version of the Serenity Prayer. [93] It inspired Winnifred Wygal to write versions of the prayer that would become well known. Fred R. Shapiro , who had cast doubts on Niebuhr's claim of authorship, conceded in 2009 that, "The new evidence does not prove that Reinhold Niebuhr wrote [the prayer], but it does ...
The American Civil War began with the stated goal of preserving the Union, and Lincoln said repeatedly that on the topic of slavery, he was only opposed to its spread to the Western territories. This view of the war progressively changed, one step at a time, as public sentiment evolved, until by 1865 the war was seen in the North as primarily ...
Slavery and Justice Report (PDF). Providence, RI: Brown University's Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice. Brandon, Mark E. (1998). Free in the World: American Slavery and Constitutional Failure. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-01581-3. Brewster, Francis E. (1850). Slavery and the Constitution. Both Sides of the ...
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, A Black Family Keepsake is a 2021 non-fiction book by historian Tiya Miles that discusses American slavery in the 19th century, specifically focusing on Ashley's sack to guide the narrative.