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… country was severed from the Spanish government, and this event rendered the original contract of settlement null and … proclaimed the deliverance of every captive on her soil. Unlike the boasted republic of America, she did this at … is right. Henry Clay said that what the law has made property is property, and that 200 years of legislation has …

… new exhibition at the New Haven Museum, “Shining Light on Truth: New Haven, Yale, and Slavery,” curated by Michael J. … alumni of Yale, from the 1830s to 1940. “Shining Light on Truth” presents evidence of the essential role of enslaved …

… the profits of slavery—the institution exists upon their soil; but if I were going to give the exact position of the … whole physical power to bear against the slave if such an event should arise. (Cries of “Shame!”) The slave has no … power by which one man exercises and enforces a right of property in the body and soul of another. The condition of a …

… whole body, even his soul, his immortal spirit, were the property of another. The slave could not decide his own … the British law, liberty was inseparable from the British soil; the moment a slave stood on British ground he was free. … charges in the United States. He had some character for truth in America and he should not like to forfeit it. They …

… what Church they belonged to, and that the man who claimed property in my body and soul is a member of the Methodist … a very mean man, and who has attempted a refutation of the truth of my narrative in a letter which he published in the … of the gift, and resolves that if ever I touch American soil, I shall be instantly reduced to a state of slavery. …

… Vietnam Veterans’ Winter Soldier Investigations Vietnam: Buried Secrets, Brutal Truths Bringing Iraqi War Criminals to …

… your laws entitle to vote. He comes here, he purchases property, he pays you taxes, conforms to your laws; how can … check on the legislature, it is equally unnecessary. The truth and force of public opinion on this subject, is a … boast of England, that the moment a slave stands on the soil, or breathes her air, he becomes a free man. Yet we are …

… journeys of the dead. In other words, even if a lengthy buried text claims one thing, scrutiny of material evidence … This tension of the prototypical oral testimony versus forensics in archaeological research has since captivated … Given that piles of fine lacquer wine vessels were buried for him, the man might have long indulged in banquets …

… different; it must be regarded as one man holding property in another, subjected to the destroying of all the … the free hills of old Scotland, treading upon British soil, I can appreciate and perceive the grandeur of the … Liberty is commensurate with and inseparable from British soil. British law proclaims even to the stranger and …