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United States Army Dred Scott
1,512 wordsTo tell the story of a slave is, of necessity, to tell the story largely, of his masters. This is the story of a slave that whished for freedom. After belonging to several different owners, Dred whished to carry on his life as a free man with his wife and two children. Relying on the Justice System in America. Dred took his fight for freedom to the courts, little did he know that his case would one day go down in history as the turning point in American slavery. The Blow family were Dred's first...
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Pair Of Handcuffs Houdini Drowned One
1,345 wordsEhrich Weiss was born in Budapest, Hungary on March 24, 1874. His family migrated to the United States of America when he was only four years old. At an early age he was hooked by the magic shows that he attended. When he was seventeen he read the memoirs of Robert-Houdini, a French magician of the 1800 s. Houdini became his idol, and later his life-long inspiration to become First in my profession, in my speciality in my profession. When a friend told him that if he were to add the letter i to ...
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