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History - questioning the winners and how we arrived at this point

On this day in 1841, former President John Q. Adams argued to the US Supreme Court on behalf of captured slaves in the Amistad case. In 1839, La Amistad, a Spanish slave ship, had been sailing from Havana, Cuba, to Port-Au-Prince with slave cargo to be sold. During the voyage, the slaves, who had been free men captured in Sierra Leone, rebelled, killing the ship's captain and cook. The Africans ordered the ship's crew to sail them back to Africa, but instead the ship sailed north and was captured by the U.S. Navy off the coast of NY; the Africans were then arrested for murder. Spain claimed rights to the ship and its cargo, but abolitionists hired JQA to defend the prisoners. JQA's argument lasted 8.5 hours, spanning two days in court, countering the US Government attorney's argument that the treaty with Spain should override US principals of individual rights. The court ruled in favor of returning the Africans to their native land.


**Lifted from This Day in History desktop calendar.
 
June 17, 1885, the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbor. On June 17, 2017, 2018, ,2019, and 2020, the Trump administration renewed its annual year-long efforts to have the bitch torn down for holding Deep State socialist agendas.
 
I learned something thanks to TikTok yesterday...

While July 4th is celebrated as the date the Declaration of Independence was drafted/submitted (and that it took months to ratify), what we are taught and celebrate as being our cornerstone of our nation is nothing more than a press release by our founding fathers.

The real "Declaration of Independence" is two days earlier: the Lee Resolution.

John Adams wrote his wife about the resolution of independence:
The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival.​


Missed it by *that* much.

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Happy July 2nd weekend everyone!
 
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Making a national holiday about celebrating a press release seems to have accurately predicted the entire future of this country though...
 
On this day in 1944, Anne Frank was captured. Trump wasn’t even born yet, but already he was smiling.
 
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