scholarly journals Somerset’s Case: The Unsung Verdict and Its Legacy

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sehoon Baek ◽  
Jeffry Bedore
Keyword(s):  
Black Men ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Revolutionary War ◽  
Court Case ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
English Court ◽  
Chattel Slavery ◽  
Broad Understanding

The paper is a comparison between the English court case Somerset v. Stewart(1772) and the infamous American suit Scott v. Sandford(1857), both of which deal with the issue of a slave’s freedom and seeks to analyze the reason why the judges overseeing these cases rendered different verdicts. The paper specifically explains the verdict of Somerset, which freed the slave in question, and Scott, which did not, in a socio-economic lens, pointing to the American dependency on slavery as a factor in the disenfranchisement of African-Americans, which was less of a factor in England that contributed to an early end to slavery in that country, including through the inclusion of black men in the Royal Army and Navy during Britain’s conflicts with the United States of America. Although a misinterpretation of Somerset’s Judge Lord Mansfield’s verdict, a wide-spread, broad understanding of his decision led to the acceptance of legal freedom for slaves throughout Britain, reinforcing American attempts to resist runaway attempts of slaves for British-controlled territory during the Revolutionary War and later the War of 1812. The paper finally renders the American Revolution as a hypocritical one that did not immediately contribute to equality, and notes Mansfield’s overlooked role in the abolition of chattel slavery.

British Radical Attitudes towards the United States of America in the 1790s: The Case of William Winterbotham

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Macleod
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Thomas Paine ◽  
High Court ◽  
Philosophical View ◽  
Political Analysis ◽  
Chattel Slavery ◽  
Joseph Priestley ◽  
New Republic

This chapter examines British radical attitudes towards America during the 1790s by taking up the case of William Winterbotham, a Plymouth Baptist preacher who was jailed in Newgate prison for four years (1793–1797) for allegedly seditious content in two sermons he preached in November 1792. Winterbotham's most ambitious work was An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the American United States, published in four volumes in 1795. It demonstrates the fascination that America held for British radicals beyond Thomas Paine, Joseph Priestley and Richard Price. Among his many concerns, Winterbotham was highly critical of the institution of chattel slavery. The chapter explores Winterbotham's political analysis of the new republic and shows that his imprisonment for seditious libel was bracketed by contemporaries with the more conspicuous 'martyrdom' of five men sentenced to transportation by the Scottish High Court of Justiciary.

Why the Fight against Hunger Mattered

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Rachel B. Herrmann
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
The United States ◽  
Revolutionary War ◽  
Food Aid ◽  
British Colonies

This introductory chapter discusses the important role of hunger during the American Revolution. Enduring, ignoring, creating, and preventing hunger were all ways to exercise power during the American Revolution. Hunger prompted violence and forged ties; it was a weapon of war and a tool of diplomacy. In North America, Cherokee, Creek, Delaware, Iroquois (Haudenosaunee), Miami, and Shawnee Indians grew and destroyed foodstuffs during the Revolutionary War, which forced their British and American allies to hunger with them, and to furnish provisions that accommodated Native tastes. By the 1810s, the United States had learned how to prevent Indian hunger, to weaponize food aid, and to deny Indians the power gained by enduring and ignoring scarcity. Meanwhile, people of African descent gained some power by creating white hunger during the Revolutionary War, but more so as formerly enslaved communities, primarily after leaving the new United States and migrating to British colonies in Nova Scotia and then Sierra Leone. After white officials in Sierra Leone realized that colonists' hunger-prevention efforts gave them too much freedom, black colonists lost their hunger-preventing rights. Ultimately, three key behaviors changed and were, in turn, changed by evolving ideas about hunger: food diplomacy, victual warfare, and victual imperialism.

scholarly journals The American Revolution and the Habsburg Monarchy

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Singerton
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
Habsburg Monarchy ◽  
The Impact

Jonathan Singerton’s is the first work to analyze the impact of the American Revolution in the Habsburg lands in full. He narrates how the Habsburg dynasty first received struggled with the news of the American Revolution and then how they sought to utilize their connections with a sovereign United States of America. Overall, Singerton recasts scholarly conceptions of the Atlantic World and also presents a more globalized view of the eighteenth-century Habsburg world, highlighting how the American call to liberty was answered in the remotest parts of central and eastern Europe but also showing how the United States failed to sway one of the largest, most powerful states in Europe onto its side in the War for American Independence.

The Origins of New York City

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Marie Cantwell ◽  
Diana diZerega Wall
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
York City ◽  
The United States ◽  
Autonomous Communities ◽  
Archaeological Excavations

In the fifteenth century, a rich coastal area along the western rim of the Atlantic Basin, now known as New York City, was on the brink of transformation. It was a quiet place where autonomous communities of egalitarian peoples, today known as the Munsee, lived. Three centuries later, that place had become the first capital of a new, slave-owning, settler nation, the United States of America, and that nation’s premier port. In between, it was first an extractive and then a settler colony of two major European powers, the Netherlands and England, and a battleground in the American Revolution. This chapter uses the results of archaeological excavations there to illuminate that dramatic transformation.

America as History

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Axel Körner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
The United States ◽  
Popular Sovereignty ◽  
Declaration Of Independence ◽  
War Of Independence ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
History Of

This chapter examines early Italian writings on the history of the American War of Independence, including Carlo Botta's History of the War of Independence of the United States of America (1809), Carlo Giuseppe Londonio's three-volume Storia delle colonie inglesi (1812–1813), and Giuseppe Compagnoni's twenty-nine-volume Storia dell'America (1829). The chapter compares the context in which these works were created to the changing responses they generated during the later course of the Risorgimento. It also draws on these writings to discuss historiography as political thought, arguing that most Italian historians writing about the American Revolution presented the United States as a political reality far removed from European experiences. Even 500 years after the American Declaration of Independence, Italian references to the United States did not necessarily mean an open endorsement of popular sovereignty.

scholarly journals Teacher Education and the Challenges of Global Economic Meltdown

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 121-131
Author(s):  
J.B. Babalola ◽  
Adesoji A. Oni ◽  
Ademola Atanda
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
American Economy ◽  
Broad Understanding

The global economic meltdown is a serious worldwide malfunctioning economic activity that started in the United States of America in December, 2000 but became obvious in 2007 and full-blown between 2008 and 2009. The meltdown is characterized by drastic streamlining, rightsizing and downsizing of human and financial resources in both public and private sectors of the American economy. This paper sets out to identify the challenges the global economic meltdown poses to teacher education in Nigeria and also seeks means of handling such challenges. To have a broad understanding of the challenges the global economic meltdown have posed to teacher education, the next section of this paper highlights the meltdown as part of the global radical changes in environmental, economic, political, technological and social spheres since the beginning of this millennium. The paper concluded with recommendation of how teacher education can be made relevant for sustainable development.

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