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The inspiration for the Lone Ranger was a black man born into slavery who later became a US Marshall and was credited with 3,000 arrests and killing 14 outlaws
how many countries outlaw slavery?
The real "Lone Ranger" was an African American who escaped slavery and successfully lived among Native American people employing them as scouts to apprehend outlaws in disputed territories. Y
What was the first country to outlaw slavery?
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what was the last country to outlaw slavery?
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President Lincoln essentially bribed Congress to outlaw slavery by offering lame-duck congressmen cushy government jobs in a then-legal form of corruption known as the patronage system
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After slavery in the United States was outlawed by the 13th Amendment in 1865, the Abolitionist newspaper The Liberator reorganized itself as a general news magazine and is now known as The Nation.
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Ulysses S. Grant became the youngest president to be elected to date, at 46. He was also the first president elected after the outlaw of slavery.
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Mauritania was the last nation to outlaw slavery in 1981 but didn't make it a crime until 2007. Even today 10-20% of the population is enslaved.
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Mississippi Didn't Officially Outlaw Slavery Until 1995
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The Declaration of Causes of Seceding States explicitly state Northern efforts to outlaw slavery as the reason for secession
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13th amendment documentary review.
It's not enough to look at one thing to analyze what is wrong with it, is a key point that may get overlooked (or simply not exactly the focus, but between the lines) in Ava DuVernay's powerful indictment of an entire society. When you look at the systemic issues of racism in this country, slavery is the key thing, and the title refers to the 13th amendment to the constitution (need a cinematic reference point, see Spielberg's Lincoln for more), and how one small line in the amendment referring to how slavery is outlawed except, kinda, sorta, for criminals, is paramount in how black people and bodies have been treated in the 150 years since the end of the Civil War. -
President John F Kennedy pressured the Saudi King to free his slaves and outlaw slavery in Saudi Arabia...
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Mississippi rejected the 13th amendment which outlawed slavery in 1865, and did not actually ratify it until 1995.
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The 13th amendment doesn't actually outlaw slavery. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, **except as a punishment for crime** whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
