Attempts have been made to reverse the judgment of contemporaries, in the cases of Judas Iscariot, of Henry the Eighth, and of Shakespeare, and I venture the assertion that all these attempts have failed, most signally.
Boutwell discusses failed attempts to change the historical judgments of figures like Judas Iscariot and Shakespeare.
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By the amendment of 1865 freedom and equality in government were guaranteed to all and especially to the negro race in America.
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