Us constitution and civil liberties articles
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An Unholy Traffic: how the slave trade continued through the US civil war
In a new book, Robert KD Colby of the University of Mississippi shows how the Confederacy remained committed to slaveryWhile the civil war is associated with the end of slavery in the US, the so-called peculiar institution survived throughout much of the Confederacy right to the end of the conflict. That’s the thought-provoking narrative of a comprehensive new book by Robert KD Colby, a history professor at the University of Mississippi.“Many Confederates saw slavery as indelibly bound up with...
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‘Political arrest’ of Palestinian academic in Israel marks new civil liberties threat
University and colleagues condemn detention of law professor, the first time an academic has been held over speech related to workThe arrest and interrogation of a leading Palestinian legal scholar based at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem marks a new threat to civil liberties in Israel, her legal team and employer have said.Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian was detained by police on the afternoon of 18 April over comments made on a podcast more than a month earlier and held overnight in...
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US-Israel: Netanyahu vows to reject any US sanctions on army units
Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to reject any sanctions on the country's military, after reports that the US plans to cut aid to one unit.