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They sought to realize a type of liberty that was no more and no less restrictive than the best of what could be achieved by white American men, even as Black women uniquely withstood what Jacobs called the “wrongs, and sufferings, and mortifications peculiarly their own.”

From Salon

Chapter 8 explores Jacobs' narrative "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" alongside Harper’s letters, poetry and speeches as among the most trenchant and still underexplored philosophical commentaries on how the United States might redress the systemic wrongs that conditioned the ideology of racial feudalism.

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The Trump era brought with it important movements against police violence and male sexual impunity, both efforts to correct centuries-old wrongs.

From Slate

Owner Aurelio De Laurentiis had to right a few wrongs and hiring Conte as well as investing more than £100m in the summer transfer market is proving fruitful.

From BBC

In his statement pardoning Erickson, Trump said that he was helping to “right the wrongs of what has been revealed to be perhaps the greatest witch hunt in American history.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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