the league of Nations was an alliance with the mission to stop wars in deal with stuff diplomatically. the United States Senate wanted to go back to being isolationist.
South Carolina would be considered the first state of the confederacy
They were limited by the absence of federal authority to regulate slavery.
Solomon Northup was an outsider. He had grown up as a "free" black man. He had never experienced anything like that. He was accustomed to an entirely different existence.