Description: History and Battlefield
History and Battlefield
Mexico’s halting efforts to crack down on the country’s illicit narcotics empires has given way to near warfare against the big Sinaloa drug cartel in its lawless northwest. The arrest of the son of an imprisoned Sinaloa Cartel leader named Joaquin Guzman,…
Emeline Chapman faced a difficult choice in the summer of 1856. As an enslaved woman in Washington, D.C., Chapman and her husband John Henry were raising a young family while enduring the daily struggles of enslavement. Chapman’s enslaver, Emily Thompson,…