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American slave rebellion leader (1800-1831)
The Insurrection Act has been invoked intermittently since the early republic, with sources counting roughly 30 separate invocations over U.S. history and attributing those uses to somewhere between 1...
Non-slaveholding whites in the antebellum South overwhelmingly supported the slave system because it underpinned the region’s economy, social hierarchy and political power — not just the fortunes of p...
Across roughly 230 years, presidents have invoked the about 30 times for a range of crises—from full-scale rebellion to racial violence, labor disputes, and episodes of civil unrest—and those invocati...
has been invoked roughly 30 times across history by a minority of presidents to authorize the domestic use of federal military force in crises ranging from early rebellions to , labor unrest, , and th...