Sicily was the first part of Italy to be taken under general Belisarius who was commissioned by Eastern Emperor Justinian I. Sicily was used as a base for the Byzantines to conquer the rest of Italy, with Naples, Rome, Milan and the Ostrogoth capital Ravenna falling within five years.
Frederick Douglass was an African American abolitionist during the time of the Civil War. An abolitionist is someone who wants to abolish, or get rid of, slavery.
