Part Four: Compromise of 1877
Uncover the enduring impact of slavery on America’s foundations and the urgent call for restitution to heal historical injustices and honor the promise of liberty and justice for all.
The Black Literacy Journal: America’s Color-Biased Constitution
Find out why the notion that the US Constitution is a color-blind document is a myth.
Dred Scott: Resolving the Myth of a Color-Blind Constitution
Read more about how the Dred Scott case revealed the Constitution wasn’t color-blind. Precedents like the Declaratory Act of 1766 and Somerset v. Stewart influenced this, denying rights to Black people.
The Case for Liberty: The Criminal Enslavement of Colonial Englishmen
Learn how Colonial American slavery, a criminal scheme, was nullified by British Parliament in 1766, exposing its illegitimacy and racialized laws.
England’s Common Law Effectively Banned Slavery in the Colonies
The first 19 or 20 Africans who arrived in the colony of Virginia in 1619 were indentured servants—not enslaved people.
What if History Confirms Slavery Was Always Illegal?
At the signing of the Declaration of Independence—black colonists had the same legal rights and status as white colonists under the English rule of law.
Colonial Slavery Under Threat Long Before 1776
Some historians declare slavery faced “no immediate threat” in the colonies, but the evidence that slavery was under threat is overwhelming.
Ahistorical Claims by Today’s Historians
Did the founders declare the colonies’ independence of Britain in order to ensure slavery would continue? The evidence is overwhelming.
Slave Statutes Violated Law
U. S. slavery being a legal institution during British colonial rule is America’s public policy and serves as basic U. S. history, even though colonial slave statutes and racialized laws supporting slavery during colonial rule were not lawfully promulgated.
Revisionist Histories are Ahistorical
The rights of black students in public school districts throughout the U. S. are protected from receiving customized, inaccurate, or sculpted information and ideas proffered as actual history-based upon de jure discrimination.