William Blackstone the jurist of 18th century claimed that the actual term Habeas Corpus first appeared in 1305, but the concept of Habeas Corpus can be traced to the Magna Carta. (Signed in 1215 by King John, Article 39 of the Magna Carta states :) “No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or diseased, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way harmed—nor will we go upon or send upon him—save by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law.”(Magna Charta, n.d.) Later, in the year 1628, Sir Edward Coke helped to summarize the Petition of Right, which afterward became the establishment of which the English Constitution was put in black and white. The Petition of Right forced the king’s authority in regards to the civil liberties of men, more exclusively yielding a prisoner the right to use Habeas Corpus to dispute whether or not they had been lawfully incarcerated. The Founding Fathers later used Coke’s ideas to outline their own credentials. The Founding Fathers also looked to the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679 throughout their own drafts.
Her parents, Benjamin Ross and Harriet Green, were enslaved Ashanti Africans who had eleven children, and saw many of there older children get sold into the South. At five years old, Araminta was "rented" to neighbors to do housework. She was never
“In 1804, Sacagawea was living among the Mandan and Hidatsa, near present day Bismarck, North Dakota (www.nps.gov/lecl/historyculture/sacagawea.htm).” Sacagawea has had no date of birth. Sacagawea was born with no record of her parents. People only have certain records of her and they are sketchy. Sacagawea has had her name spelt many different ways the one that is most commonly used is Sacagawea. I have tried to find her parents names for a while.
He states in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass that he “was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot county [sic].” (Douglass 395) Douglass never had the chance of knowing who his actual father was. In his narrative, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, he states that the only knowledge he gained of who his father may have been was through others whispers on the plantation. Whenever Douglass was just at twelve months old, his mother was sent away from him. Unlike Jacobs, he never had any chance of knowing his mother. He only had the chance of seeing her a handful of times, which was only at night and his mother had to walk twelve miles both ways to see him, during his life before she passed away.
She was expelled from the Quaker church for marrying Madison who was an Episcopalian. Madison was seventeen years older than Dolley when they married. They were married on September 14, 1794. The couple sadly didn’t have any children of their own. Dolley however, did have a son from her past marriage.
Wells was the oldest daughter of James and Lizzie Wells on July 16, 1862. Thanks to the Emancipation Proclamation, the Wells family, along with the rest of the world’s slaves, slaves were freed least than a year Ida was born. Even though the family had gained there freedom they stilled faced racial prejudices and were limited by discriminatory rules and practices. Ida’s family made education a priority. Her father served on the board of trustees for Rust State College.
There, she became a servant to Ebenezer Wells. Blacks were not allowed to be baptized in the 1700s. Despite the fact, Ebenezer Wells allowed Lucy to be baptized. In 1746, Lucy witnessed the Indian Massacre at the age of 16, which is now known as the “bars fight”. Despite her young age, she later wrote two poetic versions of the battle.
The Constitution paid attention to the irregularities in the Declaration of Independence and replaced all direct mentions of slavery. The Great Compromise drew an end to the disagreements among the states and set congressional representation upon population on an equal basis. The Bill of Rights was introduced by James Madison to the first United States Congress on August 21, 1789 and was used by the House of Representatives. John Dickinson proposed an outline to the Articles of Confederation in 1776. The first establishment of a formal government in the colonies was introduced in this.
Sojourner Truth’s original name was Isabella Baumfree. She was born in 1797 in Ulster County, New York to mother Elizabeth and father James Baumfree. She was one of thirteen children. Her parents were both slaves on the Colonel Johannes Hardenbergh plantation in Swartekill, New York. She lived on the plantation with her family until she was nine, which was when she was sold to a new master because the previous one had died.
Harriet Jacobs’ Narrative "I want to add my testimony to that of abler pens to convince the people of the Free States what slavery really is. Only by experience can any one realize how deep, and dark, and foul is that pit of abominations." After nearly seven years hiding in a storeroom crawlspace above her grandmother’s home, Harriet Ann Jacobs took a step that other slaves dared to dream. She secretly boarded a boat in Edenton, N.C., bound for Philadelphia, New York; eventually she reunited with her children and gained freedom. This young slave woman’s fight and faith were written in her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, self-published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent.