The Stubborn Facts about Slavery in Colonial America
Massachusetts’ patriot and lawyer John Adams… America’s second president never owned slaves, and he refused to use slave labor. During colonial times, Adams’…
Massachusetts’ patriot and lawyer John Adams… America’s second president never owned slaves, and he refused to use slave labor. During colonial times, Adams’…
Blacks born in colonial America were Englishmen, and native Africans could be nothing less than indentured servants under English law. White colonists did…
Parliament’s Declaratory Act of 1766 recalibrated the defined legislative role of colonial legislative assemblies within the North American colonies. The Act legislatively abolished…
On the morning of November 28, 1771, Lord Chief Justice Mansfield denied a renewed motion for judgment by the plaintiff Lewis to assess…
The 1771 case of Rex v. Stapylton (K.B.1771) was the last slavery case before the James Somerset v. Charles Stewart habeas case. Stapylton…
In the early 1640s, a series of civil wars erupted between Royalists and Parliamentarians. The Parliamentarians won the civil wars, which led to…
America has always imagined itself as exceptional… A Shining City on a Hill. This bucolic view, as well as our white countrymen’s inability…
by James Brewer Stewart Originally published in History News Network.
“The thesis that U.S. slavery was not legal creates cultural and cognitive dissonance—it necessitates a rewriting of America’s historiography,” Larry Kenneth Alexander says.…