Jefferson and Washington’s Illegal Slave Activities
In the Atlantic in 2014… journalist and writer Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote an essay titled The Case for Reparations. He challenged each and everyone…
Washington’s Extralegal Claim on Colonial Slavery
Washington’s “colonial statute” reasoning for denying liberty to 500,000 Revolutionary War-era blacks under the Definitive Treaty of Peace in 1783 led to America’s…
Phillipsburg Emancipation Proclamation of Colonial Blacks
Colonial tyranny gave rise to the practice of hereditary slavery, an extralegal institution based upon colonial slave statutes and laws. However, the Declaratory…
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’…
Declaration of Independence or Declaring of Grievances
Blacks born in colonial America were Englishmen, and native Africans could be nothing less than indentured servants under English law. White colonists did…
The Declaratory Act Avoided Colonial Slave Laws
Parliament’s Declaratory Act of 1766 recalibrated the defined legislative role of colonial legislative assemblies within the North American colonies. The Act legislatively abolished…
Judicial Ruling on Legality of Slavery Under British Law
On the morning of November 28, 1771, Lord Chief Justice Mansfield denied a renewed motion for judgment by the plaintiff Lewis to assess…
British Laws of Liberty, not Slavery in Colonial America
In the early 1640s, a series of civil wars erupted between Royalists and Parliamentarians. The Parliamentarians won the civil wars, which led to…
The Illegality of Slavery in Colonial America
America has always imagined itself as exceptional… A Shining City on a Hill. This bucolic view, as well as our white countrymen’s inability…