We trace generations of African Americans, free and slave, who risked everything to realize their God-given rights.
In 1854 he had battered down a courthouse door in Boston in an attempt to free the fugitive slave Anthony Burns.
Some of Congress's fiercest fights were over the admission of new states to the union, and whether they should be slave or free.
"It shows the all-embracing love of Christ, who ministered to all he met: man or woman, slave or free, Jew or Gentile, " he said.
No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.
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It is not a sacrifice to die a free man rather than live as a slave or live in terror.
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When the colonialists were forced out, partly by a slave revolt, Haiti became the first free black republic in 1804.
The nine-hour Belfast tour (an epic in itself) takes in sites around Northern Ireland, including the caves where red priestess Melisandre of Asshai gave birth to an evil shadow-baby assassin, and Ballycastle, setting for the Free Cities where the eunuch Lord Varys was born as a slave.
In the 18th century, it was home to one of the largest population of free blacks in the New World even as it became one of the centers of the global slave trade and home to some of its most violent abuses.
Here were women unapologetic about being women: whole, incomplete, messy, divided, fertile, plump, merchant, slave, prostitute, servant, old, nubile, lost, found, owned, free.
But one slave-master, a Tuareg chief called Arissal Ag Amdague, said last year that he would free all 7, 000 of the human chattels that he and his clansmen owned.
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