Refugee Crisis

John Oliver On The Refugee Crisis

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Show: Last Week Tonight with John OliverGuest: Air Date: September 27th, 2015Quick Take: Last night on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, John Oliver turned his attention to the hundreds of thousands of refugees, largely from Syria, who are fighting...

The History of the United States’ First Refugee Crisis

2021-04-13 07:44:05

Fleeing the Haitian revolution, whites and free blacks were viewed with suspicion by American slaveholders, including Thomas JeffersonIllustration of the slave revolt in Haiti, and what slaveholders in the United States feared.(Digital Media Lab, Uni...

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