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…
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…
Colonial Slave Statute Tried under British Law
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…
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…