History

During WW1, the British government enacted an emergency law which made it illegal to promote the idea of an independent Indian nation. The British claimed that this was done to ensure a victory in the World War. The new law allowed the British to imprison anyone on suspicion alone without trail. They could also restrict freedom of speech, writing and movement. It was promised to stand for as long as the war. However, in 1919 the British government decided to extend the law indefinitely. This was known as the Rowlatt act. Over 1.2 million Indians fought for the British in the First World War but they were unable to talk publicly about independence. Amritsar massacre The following month, a large crowd gathered to peaceful protest the law. This was precisely what the law made illegal. Therefore, two British regiments closed in and stayed true to the warnings that were issued. They opened fire on the crowd, continuing while the civilians ran for their lives. About a thousand...

Be careful what you wish for/money isn't everything  His sister married a Habsburg and became empress of Mexico. After reigning for only 3 years, her husband was executed by firing squad and she was said to have gone insane. She spent the rest of her life in isolation.  His only son died at age 9 after falling in a pond and developing pneumonia. Leopold had three daughters. He married them away at the age of 17 to men double their age.  One married Crown Prince Rudolf, heir to the Hapsburg throne. However, he had a drinking problem and had many affairs. One of these affairs ended with a suicide pact, leaving her a widow. She remarried a Hungarian nobleman, of a lesser rank and because of this her father never spoke to her again. The other daughter of King Leopold was married a German prince. He was twice her age and had many affairs. When she, in turn, fell in love with a Croatian army officer. When her husband found out he gave her the choice of coming home t...

Don't know the score Don't let either side get to 20 Three members of the KKK attack and kill a white Republican.  Punish - 1 S Ignore - 5N Five members of the KKK attack and kill a black man Punish - 5 S Ignore- 2 N  North Carolina has agreed to ratify the 14th amendment and wants readmission to the union.  Accept- 1 N Refuse - 10 S Alabama has refused to ratify the 14th amendment and wants readmission to the union. Accept- 8 N Refuse- 3 S South Carolina is experiencing a fresh wave of terrorism at the hands of the KKK. They've burnt down hundreds of homes.  Send in troops- 8 S Ignore- 4 N  The Albany Penitentiary houses a handful of remorseful and low ranking KKK accomplices. People are calling for them to be pardoned. Pardon them - 2 N Don't pardon them- 2 S X

Jefferson had said: that the two races couldn't live together because of "deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites- ten thousand recollections by the blacks of the injuries they have sustained."  Teachers, politicians, doctors and lawyers were sent down south. Dear Friend: Perhaps you may care to know of my work here for the Freed people. After the horrible riots in New Orleans in July, I found my heart getting impaired from hospital visiting and excitement so I came here to do what I could and to get stronger corporally, that I might enter fully into carrying light and knowledge into dark places. The Lord blessed me and I have a very interesting and constantly growing day school, a night school, and, a glorious Sabbath School of near one hundred scholars. The school is under the auspices of the Freedmen’s Bureau, yet it is wholly self-supporting. The majority of my pupils come from plantations, three, four and even eight miles distant. So anxious ...

In 1845, Frederick Douglass, a free black man published  "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass"  where he gave a detailed, well-written account of his life as a slave. The book was hugely popular and influential. It forced many people to put themselves in the shoes of a slave and as a result empathize with them. Frederick Douglas was a living counterexample to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Likewise, Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great speaker and writer had once been a slave.

1831- Nat Turners rebellion  Watch birth of a nation? 1839 - La Armistad Rebellion  A slave ship called La Amistad set sail from Havana, Cuba. The Spanish crew were taking the 53 slaves (49 adults and 3 children) to be delivered to the town of Camaguey, Cuba. They had originally been captured in Sierra Leone and sold to the Spanish. At the time, Britain and the United States had outlawed Atlantic Slave trading but Spain still allowed it. They got out to sea the ship’s cook jokingly told the slaves that they were going to be “Killed, salted and cooked.” Whether or not the slaves thought he was serious, it made them want to escape all the more. One slave was able to file through his chains. He freed the other men and they picked up cane cutting machete’s and went onto the top deck. A fight broke out and the slaves outnumbered the crew and killed everyone except for two men. Three slaves were killed in the fight. The slaves didn’t know how to sail a ship and demanded ...

Sojourner Truth - 1828 Sojourner Truth was born in a dutch part of New York. Her first language was Dutch, and she continued to speak with a Dutch accent for the rest of her life. When her owner died in 1806, nine-year-old Truth (known as Belle), was sold at an auction with a flock of sheep for $100. (About $2,500 today) Her new owners wife didn't speak Dutch but English and when Sojourner was given orders she often didn't understand them. This lead to many punishments. Sojourner was again sold two more times before she was 13. When sojourner was 18 she fell in love with a slave on a neighboring farm which had a different owner. When a slave had a child, that child belonged to the man's owner, not the women's. So sojourners owner told her she couldn't marry someone else's slave but had to marry one of his. One night the man she was in love snuck over to see Sojourner. He was discovered and beaten severely. So she married an older slave who was ...