“The Court’s decision denied Black people the right to provide hearsay evidence supporting their freedom claims, prioritizing the propertied interests of enslavers over the lives of people those enslavers claimed belonged to them.” SOURCE: The #1619Project
#QueenVHepburn
ugly #AmericanHistory
4/4
The hearsay evidence was meant to show that, the Queens were actually descended from a free woman.
Facts: "The Supreme Court found that hearsay evidence was insufficient.” SOURCE: ISCOTUS Now, for the Chicago-Kent College of Law.
#QueenVHepburn
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
3/4
In their petition, the Queens relied on hearsay evidence that an ancestor, Mary Queen, had been free by virtue of having been in England before arriving in America, where she was later sold for a term of 7 years (perhaps as an indentured servant).
#QueenVHepburn
ugly #AmericanHistory
2/4
#OTD in #History 1813
February 05: Mima #QueenVHepburn was Decided
Context: Lord Mansfield's historic ruling in Somerset's Case (1772) implied to some lawyers and judges in America that enslaved people who entered England could become free.
#WhiteSupremacy
ugly #AmericanHistory
1/4
“The Court’s decision denied Black people the right to provide hearsay evidence supporting their freedom claims, prioritizing the propertied interests of enslavers over the lives of people those enslavers claimed belonged to them.” SOURCE: The #1619Project
#QueenVHepburn
ugly #AmericanHistory
4/4
The hearsay evidence was meant to show that, the Queens were actually descended from a free woman.
Facts: "The Supreme Court found that hearsay evidence was insufficient.” SOURCE: ISCOTUS Now, for the Chicago-Kent College of Law.
#QueenVHepburn
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
3/4
In their petition, the Queens relied on hearsay evidence that an ancestor, Mary Queen, had been free by virtue of having been in England before arriving in America, where she was later sold for a term of 7 years (perhaps as an indentured servant).
#QueenVHepburn
ugly #AmericanHistory
2/4
#OTD in #History 1813
February 05: Mima #QueenVHepburn was Decided
Context: Lord Mansfield's historic ruling in Somerset's Case (1772) implied to some lawyers and judges in America that enslaved people who entered England could become free.
#WhiteSupremacy
ugly #AmericanHistory
1/4
