During the 1700s, enslaved people who tried to escape slavery fled to places where slavery was outlawed. were never able to flee far enough. were urged to testify against their owners. needed to learn to read and write first.

Why did the collapse of the soviet union and the power vacuum in the balkans lead to bosnian genocide?

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is

Which significant event in texas history occurred in 1876?