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The novel “James” by Percival Everett, recreates the story of Huckleberry Finn from the point of view of Jim, the slave. Credit: Business Wire Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Probably there is no ...

Much of the power of the Declaration of Independence rests on Thomas Jefferson’s opening line: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their ...

An MSNBC "expert" claims "American slavery was worse because slaves were treated as property." "That's complete nonsense," replies political science professor Wilfred Reilly in my new video.

John Stossel reports on the historical context of slavery in the U.S. with Wilfred Reilly, a politicial science professor and author of "Lies My Liberal Teach Told Me." "The original sin of slavery." ...

“The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery” (Harvard, 368 pages, $29.95) began with a question. “I wanted to know,” writes John Samuel Harpham, “how what we now consider perhaps the most terrible ...

For Harpham’s explanation of how England came to view the enslavement of others as both a violation of nature and a legitimate institution, all roads ultimately lead back to Rome, and Roman law in ...

John Stossel is the creator of Stossel TV videos, and author of "No They Can't! Why Government Fails—But Individuals Succeed." Today, people are taught, when it comes to slavery, America was the worst ...

Engraving depicting the shooting of Major Pitcairn at the Battle of Bunker Hill by free black man Peter Salem, public domain. Slavery is the great exception to the rule of liberty proclaimed in the ...

Every Tuesday at JohnStossel.com, John Stossel posts a new video about the battle between government and freedom. Stossel is the author of "Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam ...

TODAY people are taught, when it comes to slavery, America was the worst. Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine actually said, “The United States didn’t inherit slavery from anybody; we created it.” An MSNBC ...

Today people are taught, when it comes to slavery, America was the worst. Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine actually said, "The United States didn't inherit slavery from anybody; we created it." An MSNBC ...