Category: Biography
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Hinton Rowan Helper
Hinton Rowan Helper in the United States Hinton Rowan Helper in the U.S. Legal History Summary The North Carolina-born author of The Impending Crisis of the South, a book that argued that slavery was incompatible with economic progress.
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Prudence Crandall
Prudence Crandall in the United States Prudence Crandall (1803-1889), American school-teacher, was born, of Quaker parentage, at Hopkinton, Rhode Island, on the 3rd of September 1803. She was educated in the Friends’ school at Providence, R. I., taught school at Plainfield, Conn., and in […]
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Prudence Crandall
Prudence Crandall in the United States Prudence Crandall (1803-1889), American school-teacher, was born, of Quaker parentage, at Hopkinton, Rhode Island, on the 3rd of September 1803. She was educated in the Friends’ school at Providence, R. I., taught school at Plainfield, Conn., and in […]
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Toussaint Louverture
Toussaint Louverture in the United States Toussaint Louverture in the U.S. Legal History Summary The leader of the Haitian Revolution.
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Toussaint Louverture
Toussaint Louverture in the United States Toussaint Louverture in the U.S. Legal History Summary The leader of the Haitian Revolution.
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Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger in the United States Personal Data Henry Kissinger was a great American success story. As a youth, he emigrated with his family to the United States, fleeing Nazi tyranny. Kissinger was born in Fürth, Germany, on May 27, 1923, came to the United States in 1938, and was […]
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Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger in the United States Personal Data Henry Kissinger was a great American success story. As a youth, he emigrated with his family to the United States, fleeing Nazi tyranny. Kissinger was born in Fürth, Germany, on May 27, 1923, came to the United States in 1938, and was […]
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Henry Laurens Dawes
Henry Laurens Dawes in the United States Henry Laurens Dawes (1816-1903), American lawyer, was born at Cummington, Massachusetts, on the 30th of October 1816. After graduating at Yale in 1839, he taught for a time at Greenfield, Mass., and also edited The Greenfield Gazette. In 1842 he was […]
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Henry Laurens Dawes
Henry Laurens Dawes in the United States Henry Laurens Dawes (1816-1903), American lawyer, was born at Cummington, Massachusetts, on the 30th of October 1816. After graduating at Yale in 1839, he taught for a time at Greenfield, Mass., and also edited The Greenfield Gazette. In 1842 he was […]
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Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Sotomayor in the United States Sonia Sotomayor is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving since August 2009. She has served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit since October 1998. She has been hailed as one of the […]
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Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur in the United States Douglas MacArthur in the U.S. Legal History Summary Bold, arrogant American general celebrated for his successful amphibious invasion at Inchon, on North Korean forces’ rear. MacArthur’s subsequent invasion into North Korea stalled, and President Truman […]
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Denmark Vesey
Denmark Vesey in the United States Denmark Vesey in the U.S. Legal History Summary A former West Indian slave who organized an attempted rebellion against slavery in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1822.
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Denmark Vesey
Denmark Vesey in the United States Denmark Vesey in the U.S. Legal History Summary A former West Indian slave who organized an attempted rebellion against slavery in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1822.
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Paul Cuffe
Paul Cuffe in the United States Paul Cuffe in the U.S. Legal History Summary An African American sea captain, Cuffe led the first experiment in colonization when he transported 38 free blacks to Sierra Leone in 1815.
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Paul Cuffe
Paul Cuffe in the United States Paul Cuffe in the U.S. Legal History Summary An African American sea captain, Cuffe led the first experiment in colonization when he transported 38 free blacks to Sierra Leone in 1815.