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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History March 9, 1841: The U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that freed the remaining 35 survivors of the Amistad mutiny. In 1839, Portuguese slave traders had illegally transported 52 Mende people from west Africa to Cuba, on the Amistad, in violation of European treaties against the slave trade. Joseph Cinque led his fellow captive Africans in a mutiny, killing the cook and captain, and forcing the remaining crew to return them to Africa. The crew tricked them and sailed up the Atlantic coast, presuming they would be intercepted by the U.S. Navy, which captured the ship near Montauk, Long Island. President Martin Van Buren wanted to send the prisoners back to Spanish authorities in Cuba to stand trial for mutiny. However, the Court recognized the mutineers’ rights as free citizens. Abolitionists raised funds for the mutineers’ defense. Former President John Quincy Adams, who opposed slavery, represented them in court.

#LaborHistory#workingclass#slavery
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Ben Royce 🇺🇦

@DrALJONES

this is a well known bug in the #twelfthamendment

the last time it happened was 1824, the house voted and that gave us president #johnquincyadams and defeated #andrewjackson who had the most popular votes

(and the anger from that led to the creation of the #democratic party- a very different party from today, like #lincoln's #republican party is nothing at all like the #GOP today)

the question is: can #MAGA engineer a tie?

i don't think that it could

i fear being proven wrong

Coach Pāṇini ®

OTD October 2, 1778, 11-year old #JohnQuincyAdams wrote to his brother from Paris about the benefits of learning French.

“Papa laments very much his having neglected this study in his youth, in terms so pathetical as to have made a deep impression upon my mind, and I wish to make the same upon yours, that we may both employ those hours which are often spent in frivolous amusements in gaining a knowledge which will make us useful to our fellow men when we grow up.”

#language#knowledge#history
Algernon D'Ammassa

If Benjamin Franklin was right when he said virtue and a trade are a child’s best portion, succeeding generations of Americans have neglected at least part of that birthright.

A review of Jeffery Rosen’s recent book, “The Pursuit of Happiness.”

lascrucesbulletin.com/stories/

Las Cruces Bulletin · How the founders linked happiness to virtueBy By Algernon D'Ammassa
#books#founders#virtue
MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History March 9, 1841: The U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that freed the remaining 35 survivors of the Amistad mutiny. In 1839, Portuguese slave traders had illegally transported 52 Mende people from west Africa to Cuba, on the Amistad, in violation of European treaties against the slave trade. Joseph Cinque led his fellow captive Africans in a mutiny, killing the cook and captain, and forcing the remaining crew to return them to Africa. The crew tricked them and sailed up the Atlantic coast, presuming they would be intercepted by the U.S. Navy, which captured the ship near Montauk, Long Island. President Martin Van Buren wanted to send the prisoners back to Spanish authorities in Cuba to stand trial for mutiny. However, the Court recognized the mutineers’ rights as free citizens. Abolitionists raised funds for the mutineers’ defense. Former President John Quincy Adams, who opposed slavery, represented them in court.

#LaborHistory#workingclass#slavery
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