Word: abolitionism
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The booming real estate market, coming on the heels of the abolition of rent control in 1994, has created what politicians and civic leaders term a "crisis in affordable housing." They say the current housing crunch is the number one problem facing the greater Boston community.
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition recently awarded it's annual Frederick Douglass Prize for the best book on slavery written this year to The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas written by Queens University of Ontario Professor David Eltis. The book was...
TIME: Yes, but how is it that hundreds of years after the abolition of serfdom in western Europe, western European nations engaged in the slave trade and slavery flourished in the New World? And why did it take so long for the idea of abolition to take hold in this...
a) the abolition of clotted cream b) therapeutic human cloning c) salt-free kippers d) semiannual flossing
Beyond "almost anything," of course, is violence, and so far there hasn't been a hint of that. On Monday, it was puppetry and pageantry (and a lack of a permit), as the Kensington Welfare Rights Union - a Philly-based organization for the poor and homeless - gathered at City Hall...