17. Human rights: The American battle for religious freedom (1775 to 1783)

Discover what the battle now celebrated as ‘Independence Day’ in America was about – while noting that this positioned them as plausibly as the most free nation, and certainly as the most generous nation, in all of human history!

16. Human rights: John Knox - Religious freedom in Scotland (1500s)
18. Human rights: New Zealand recognises the equal rights of the races (1840)

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