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According to Demographic records, the Free Black population outnumbered the Slave population in Delaware from 1800 onward, and was 10x the slave population in 1860. How different was slave society in a state where the Black population was mostly free?	244
Do we know if the Nazis treated female Soviet Army POWs any differently than the majority of male Soviet POWs?	238
3 Supreme Court Justices who ruled in the majority in Dred Scott v. Sanford; James Moore Wayne, Samuel Nelson, and Robert Cooper Grier, still sat on the court after the Civil War. How were they viewed in post-Civil War US? How did they interact with the 5 Lincoln appointed Justices?	132
With such a pervasive surveillance state, and an ongoing campaign of persecution and suppression of Catholicism, did the Nazis incidentally uncover any child sexual abuse within the Catholic Church?	106
Why was New Mexico initially the most popular place to settle West of the Mississippi and why did it decline in popularity as a place to settle following annexation to the US?	86
How do historians generally provide an explanation for the 1917 event in Portugal "the Miracle of the Sun"?	46
When people say Ernst Rohm was "openly homosexual," what do they mean?	46
3 Supreme Court Justices who had ruled in the majority in Dred Scott v. Sanford; James Moore Wayne, Samuel Nelson, and Robert Cooper Grier, still sat on the court after the Civil War. How were they viewed in post-Civil War United States? Were they blamed for the war, did they repent?	40
How were interned Japanese-Americans treated in comparison to German and Italian POWs brought to be imprisoned in the United States?	37
The ancient world, and even renaissance world, seems to be full of eunuchs. Was it really regular practice for the many of the most powerful empires in history; ancient Persia, Greece, Egypt, Babylon, Renaissance Italy, etc., to be governed by a bureaucratic class of castrated males?	33

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