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Race in the 21st century

Colson Whitehead’s novel The Underground Railroad details the journey to freedom of a slave girl named Cora. Whitehead analyzes the recurring theme of the depravity of slavery. He emphasizes familial relationships and in doing so, he shows that slavery strips slaves of forming those relationships. First and foremost, slavery took away Cora’s relationship with her […]

American societyRacismSlavery

At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union

Compromise has existed in America since time immemorial. The founding fathers of the nation Compromised on writing the constitution, producing a union of thirteen sovereign and independent states, the structure of the legislature, the election procedure of Congressmen, the powers of each branch of government and the existence of slavery. Years down the line, however, […]

American societyGreat Compromise of 1850Henry Clay

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