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A wasted opportunity
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From Civil War to Civil Rights
Ari KelmanHow should the US remember its Civil War?
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Ex-slaves of Rome and historians’ snobbery
Mary BeardWhy has the Roman practice of manumission – the formal freeing of slaves – received such a bad press? And where did all these slaves come from in the first place?
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