All people are created equal, right? Some have been more equal than others.

True or false?

1. The Talmud specifically states that a husband can divorce his wife if she spoils the dinner.
2. In Romania, Roma people are considered slaves of the local landowners.
3. The Middle Passage was a particularly desirable form of Atlantic cruise.
4. Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Kidnapped was 'ripped from the headlines'.
5. Women in ancient Egypt could not own property.
6. The term 'Catholic Emancipation' refers to getting out of parochial school at 18.
7. In 1872, a woman was arrested for voting in the US.
8. An 1876 San Francisco law mandating haircuts was designed to keep people out of jail.
9. In 1920, British police volunteered to help Indians make salt.
10. Children's rights were recognised by Magna Carta.

Think you'd make a good human rights advocate, say at The Hague? Click on the picture below for the answers to our true/false.

Dmitri Gheorgheni

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