In 1863, President Lincoln declared the Emancipation Proclamation, issuing "that all persons held as slaves" throughout America "are, and henceforward shall be free" (Lincoln). ... Nearly two decades after the Emancipation Proclamation and the end of the war, Mark Twain began writing his novel Huckleberry Finn, a novel criticized for having racism in the spotlight. ...

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Civil Disobedience has a long,distinguished history. Without Civil Disobedience, the Civil Rights Movement wouldn't have gotten very far in the 60's. Civil Disobedience is the refusal to obey the laws which are seen as unjust in an effort to bring about a chnage in governmental policy. T...

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