This petition illustrates how enslaved people used the rhetoric of the American Revolution to point out the colonies’ hypocrisy of demanding freedom and liberty, while themselves having slavery.
Kauanoe Kamana is a founding member of 'Aha Punana Leo. The article was adapted by permission from Native Americas (Summer 2000), a journal of the American Indian Program at Cornell University.
William Wilson is a founding member of 'Aha Punana Leo. The article was adapted by permission from Native Americas (Summer 2000), a journal of the American Indian Program at Cornell University.
“The Irish and the English share a long legacy of conflict.” And this conflict extended across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World as a wave of Catholic immigrants arrived in the United States in the 1820s.