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Did "freedom papers" actually help black people during slavery or were they just inevitably captured again and their papers disposed of and the courts didn't care?

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If I were to write an as-historically-accurate-as-possible American Western, what literature would I seek for help?

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The Roman Empire invaded, enslaved, and pillaged other nations. One of the cited causes for the fall of the Roman Empire is barbarian invasion. Could barbarians have just been nations justly retaliating / defending themselves, and the Romans wrote them in their history as the villains?

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Did "freedom papers" actually help black people during slavery or were they just inevitably captured again and their papers disposed of and the courts didn't care?	310
If I were to write an as-historically-accurate-as-possible American Western, what literature would I seek for help?	15
The Roman Empire invaded, enslaved, and pillaged other nations. One of the cited causes for the fall of the Roman Empire is barbarian invasion. Could barbarians have just been nations justly retaliating / defending themselves, and the Romans wrote them in their history as the villains?	3