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  2. Incitement - Wikipedia

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    Indeed, in the early case of R v Higgins [7] incitement was defined as being committed when one person counsels, procures or commands another to commit a crime, whether or not that person commits the crime. The words, "counsel" and "procure" were later adopted in section 8 of the Accessories and Abettors Act 1861 as two of the four forms of ...

  3. Agent provocateur - Wikipedia

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    The evidence that revealed these three men as "police provocateurs" was initially circumstantial-they were imposing in stature, similarly dressed, and wearing police boots. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] According to veteran activist Harsha Walia , it was other participants in the black bloc who identified and exposed the undercover police.

  4. Indentured servitude in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    This arrangement was largely unpopular amongst laborers due to the living and working conditions. The men were required to live and work communally under "quasi-military" conditions. The tasks assigned to the laborers were arduous and the food was "scanty". Some workers chose to run away to live with the Indians.

  5. Entrapment - Wikipedia

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    To catch by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to entangle; to catch or involve in contraindications; in short, to involve in any difficulties from which an escape is not easy or possible. We are entrapped by the devices of evil men. We are sometimes entrapped in our own words. [9]

  6. Fugitive slaves in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Eastman Johnson's A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves, 1863, Brooklyn Museum. In the United States, fugitive slaves or runaway slaves were terms used in the 18th and 19th centuries to describe people who fled slavery.

  7. Slavery - Wikipedia

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    Parker, where the court ruled that a black man, Anthony Johnson of Virginia, was granted ownership of another black man, John Casor, as the result of a civil case. [138] This was the first instance of a judicial determination in the Thirteen Colonies holding that a person who had committed no crime could be held in servitude for life. [139] [140]

  8. 109-year-old woman: Avoid men and you'll live longer

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    When it comes to living a long life, most people might tell you to stay away from junk food, cigarettes or alcohol... But Jessie Gallan says the key to longevity is staying away from men. And we ...

  9. Mavka - Wikipedia

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    The spirits known by this term represented the souls of girls who had died unnatural, tragic or premature deaths, particularly unchristened babies. [4] Mavka s often appear in the form of beautiful young girls who entice and lure young men into the woods, where they "tickle" them to death. [7]