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  2. Casina (play) - Wikipedia

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    Act 2.12.3 (144-251): polymetric song (ba, cr, an) [9] (108 lines) The mother, Cleostrata, orders the store-room to be sealed, and tells her maid Pardalisca that she is determined to punish her husband for his behaviour by refusing to cook for him.

  3. Meno - Wikipedia

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    Meno (/ ˈ m iː n oʊ /; Ancient Greek: Μένων, Ménōn) is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato around 385 BC., but set at an earlier date around 402 BC. [1] Meno begins the dialogue by asking Socrates whether virtue is taught, acquired by practice, or comes by nature. [ 2 ]

  4. Black Slave's Cry to Heaven - Wikipedia

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    Black Slave's Cry to Heaven Original poster Original title Traditional Chinese 黑奴 籲天 錄 Simplified Chinese 黑奴 吁天 录 Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Hēinú Yūtiān Lù Wade–Giles Hei 1 nu 21 t`ien 1 Lu 4 Written by Zeng Xiaogu Based on Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe Date premiered 1 June 1907 (1907-06-01) Original language Chinese Black Slave ...

  5. Menaechmi - Wikipedia

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    Act 1.2 (110–119): polymetric song (25 lines) The young man Menaechmus emerges quarrelling with his wife through the door, threatening to divorce her if she continues nagging. Act 1.2 (119–134): mixed iambic and trochaic metres (16 lines) He says she is spoiled (tr8), and lists all the presents he buys her (ia4).

  6. List of works by Faith Ringgold - Wikipedia

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    Politically Correct Sheet Series: Slave Rape #1 of 2 (1987) [92] Politically Correct Sheet Series: Slave Rape #2 of 2 (1987) [92] Politically Correct Sheet Series: Woman Power Poverty and Love #1 of 2 (1987) [92] Politically Correct Sheet Series: Woman Power Poverty and Love #2 of 2 (1987) [92] South African Love Story Part 1 of 2 (1985-1987) [92]

  7. Robert Morris (lawyer) - Wikipedia

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    Shadrach Minkins was a fugitive slave from Norfolk, Virginia, who escaped in 1850 to Boston, Massachusetts and worked as a waiter. He was captured and held under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 . Upon his arrest at the restaurant where he worked, Minkins was taken to a hearing at the Boston courthouse.

  8. Joshua Glover - Wikipedia

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    Garland led a group of slave catchers to Wisconsin, where he obtained a federal warrant for Glover's arrest under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. [1] This act enabled federal marshals to pursue fugitive slaves anywhere in the United States, arrest them and return them to their slavers.

  9. Lemmon v. New York - Wikipedia

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    The People (1860), [1] popularly known as the Lemmon Slave Case, was a freedom suit initiated in 1852 by a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The petition was granted by the Superior Court in New York City, a decision upheld by the New York Court of Appeals, New York's highest court, in 1860 on the eve of the Civil War .