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Monday Open Thread: Forgotten Panthers – Political Prisoners in the U.S.

November 27, 2017 by Miranda 302 Comments

This week we will take a look at some lesser known members of the original Black Panther Party that are either still in prison or served decades for crimes in which the evidence did not prove they actually committed them. Marshall "Eddie" Conway (born April 23, 1946) was a leading member of the Baltimore chapter of the Black Panther Party who in 1971 was convicted of murder … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: Forgotten Panthers – Political Prisoners in the U.S.

Saturday Open Thread: Little Known Slave Court Cases

November 11, 2017 by Miranda 179 Comments

Two cases to close out this week's topic. I raise my fist and bow my head in salute of the defendants, Abram and Dave. State v Abram, 10 Alabama 928 (1847) Isaac J. Kirkendall, a white overseer, saw Abram, a slave, loitering around the negro quarters. He ordered him to work. Abram replied that he was sick and could not work. Kirkendall felt his pulse, declared him … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: Little Known Slave Court Cases

Friday Open Thread: Little Known Slave Court Cases

November 10, 2017 by Miranda 210 Comments

North Carolina v. Negro Will (1834) In 1834, on a plantation in Edgecombe County North Carolina, a slave named Will refused to share a hoe he had made with his own hands, an act of defiance that got him shot in the back. As he lay wounded, Will reached up and fatally slashed his overseer on the hip and the arm, earning himself a trip to the gallows. But before the … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Little Known Slave Court Cases

Thursday Open Thread: Little Known Slave Court Cases

November 9, 2017 by Miranda 247 Comments

Jenny Slew (1719 - unknown) was one of the first black Americans to sue for her freedom, and the first person to succeed through trial by jury. Jenny Slew was born circa 1719 to a free white woman and an enslaved black man. That fact would become the core of an historical legal case forty-six years later in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Jenny contended … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: Little Known Slave Court Cases

Wednesday Open Thread: Little Known Slave Court Cases

November 8, 2017 by Miranda 299 Comments

The judicial system is the venue which offers legal recourse to correct wrongs, even to segments of society that, historically, were not recognized by the law as citizens. As early as 1807, under Missouri territorial statutes, persons held in wrongful servitude could sue for freedom if they had evidence of wrongful enslavement. The territorial statute was codified in Missouri … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: Little Known Slave Court Cases

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