How it Impacts
America’s Revolutionary War (1775-1783) was a civil insurrection by which 13 of Great Britain’s North American colonies won political independence and formed the…
America’s Revolutionary War (1775-1783) was a civil insurrection by which 13 of Great Britain’s North American colonies won political independence and formed the…
Ending our fixation on slavery and focusing on what happened next could help us move on from the argument that racism in America…
“The thesis that U.S. slavery was not legal creates cultural and cognitive dissonance—it necessitates a rewriting of America’s historiography,” Alexander says. “This has radical implications for academia.”
Under English law, the legal status of each colonist was defined by the same protocol used for the first 19 Africans, who arrived…
British Commander-in-Chief, General Henry Clinton issued The Phillipsburg Proclamation on June 30, 1779… an iteration of England’s Southern Strategy of 1775. The proclamation…
Brilliantly orchestrated by Lord Chief Justice Mansfield… the unanimous decision of His Majesty’s King’s Bench in the Somerset case in 1772 delivered a…