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by Paul Finkelman, Ph.D. onFebruary 26, 2013
A college president's blunder reminds us how a compromise over slavery still affects U.S. politics.
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by Hillary Crosley onFebruary 17, 2013
Emory University head says the compromise, which legally represented a slave as less than a person, was a positive solution.
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by Zaheer Ali onJanuary 7, 2011
In reading the hallowed document on the House floor, Republicans tried to avoid the parts that referred to people as property, but this was as ineffective as censoring Huckleberry Finn.
