"Once free, always free" was a common law doctrine applied by many courts prior to the Civil War to determine the status of a slave who had lived in a state or territory where slavery was outlawed. According to logic, once a person had been emancipated by the circumstances of law, he or she could not be reenslaved.
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Once again, a free response question doesn't have a correct or incorrect answer, as long as the answer given is supported by facts from the period, and, in the DBQ section, is backed up by the documents. An answer which is purely opinion will ALWAYS be wrong.
The Atlantic Charter was a policy that declared the Allies goals for the world once World War II was over. It was World War II itself that caused the creation of this statement.
the cold war was coming to an end. Apex :)
Henry Ravenel believed the slaves would fight on the side of their masters. He was shocked after Sherman's March that many of his slaves either left or refused to work once they learned they were free. He was obviously in denial, somehow believing people would rather be enslaved than free.
Once, In the Landsenburg prision after his ko de tah. ---