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Human rights abuses

  • SlaveryPeter, a slave from Louisiana in 1863, bore scars on his back from a whipping by his overseer. These marks tell the story of an economic phenomenon where…
  • TortureA captured Viet Cong soldier, blindfolded and tied in a stress position by American forces during the Vietnam War of 1967, illustrates the deliberate…
  • Racial segregationIn 2002, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court officially classified racial segregation as a crime against humanity.
  • Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950)In 1942, Winston Churchill proposed the expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe to Polish and Czechoslovak governments-in-exile in London.
  • Economic sanctionsIn 1806, Emperor Napoleon I of France issued a decree known as the Continental System. This order forbade all European nations under French control from…