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… Raymond Arsenault traces Lewis’s upbringing in rural Alabama, his activism as a Freedom Rider and leader of the … most notably when he suffered a skull fracture in Selma, Alabama, during the 1965 police attack later known as Bloody …

… abolition of slavery and instituted gradual antislavery laws. In large part this was a result of the free and …

… in Africa proved to be a protracted and ambiguous process. Laws against slavery were tentatively introduced, but were …

… of Law at Yale Law School. His most recent book  Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History  (2012) was awarded the …

… for slavery, did apologize for blocking anti-lynching laws that might have halted the murder of thousands of blacks … the reality of slavery. America reached the nadir of the Jim Crow era in the 1890s with few individuals or institutions …