Dated December 2018, Final Paper for “American Legal History I” at Brandeis University, taught by Professor Michael Willrich.
“Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.” Edmund Burke says, and indeed they are. If we do not study our past and “let bygones be bygones”, it is inevitable that we would, sooner or later, be drawn into another war or plague, or misunderstanding, by the powerful gravity of human neglect and arrogance.
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Indians, as a result of their past status of British subjects, had been a peculiar part of world imperialism. They had served in its army, labored on its plantations, and settled in its other colonies around the globe. Today we trace their footprints to East Africa, where there is a substantial Indian population till this …
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Racial inequalities always exist, and slavery in 19th-century United States was among the most horrible expressions of this stereotypic assumption, which many advocates worked hard to eliminate and abolish. Frederick Douglass, born around 1818, was a slave for life in Maryland before his successful escape to New York in 1838. His famous slave narrative not …
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The historical reasons of the tension could be traced back for more than six decades. During Tsarist Russia and Qing Dynasty, there were disputes over lands that were traditional Chinese settlements, and the Russians performed massacres in several frontier villages, which led to historical disbelief and resentment to the Russians. It was during the Boxer …
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