Supreme Court's big birthright case
Can a president decide who gets to be a citizen?
It was precisely the right moment for an anti-slavery group to talk strategy.
“While four millions of our fellow countrymen are in chains,” Frederick Douglass told the American Abolition Society in New York on May 14, 1857, “while men, women, and children are bought and sold on the auction-block with…
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