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It’s hard when messed-up people treat you badly, but if you take it personally it only makes it worse.
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© Klearchos Kapoutsis, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
An affectionate father came up with an imaginative way to get his sons to work on the farm.
© Christine Matthews, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
Anti-slavery campaigner Granville Sharp had a court order preventing Thomas Lewis being shipped off to slavery, but he had to find him first.
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James, brother of John the Evangelist, was executed for his faith by a close friend of the Emperor Caligula.
By John Singleton Copley (1738-1815), via Wikimedia Commons.
After James Somerset was loaded onto a British slave-ship bound for Jamaica, Granville Sharp and other committed Christians turned to the courts for justice.
© Przemysław Sakrajda, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC-BY-SA 3.0.
A proud British king, taken to Rome as a trophy of Empire, refused to plead for his life.