And religion. I started out studying quakers and quakerism in the colonial period and when i got to the revolution his name kept coming up. When i try to research and i couldnt find anything about him, or very little, and what was there was very conflicted and nobody seemed to be able to understand his actions. Very few people have heard of him today. Thats in stark contrast to his reputation during his lifetime. In the years immediately leading up to the revolution, his name was better known than washington or franklin. John dickinson wrote many of americas first state papers, and many of the highest level documents, policy documents, constitution, legislation. But he also wrote many more things for ordinary American People. And spoke to them in a way that very few other leaders did. These include newspaper articles, homes and americas first patriotic songs. Dickinson first entered the National Political scene and he was phenomenal leader of the Stamp Act Congress and wrote the stamp
More than a century before the nuremberg tribunal and these records created by treaties to promote these human rights objectives promoting the slave trade. If a ship were caught common gauge and illegal slave trade it would be brought before one of the International Courts, and if they found out that it was covered by the treaty, it was a spanish ship for some of the treaty between britain and spain saying we are ending the slave trade, and what happened is the slaves would be freed and the ship would be auctioned off. The money would be split between the sea captain that brought the ship and other governments that were involved. Cities International Courts as i recount in the book heard some 80,000 slaves off of captured huge number and scale of the host what wit was the name f this International Courts tragedy mixed. Treaties given different names. Theyre a bunch of bilateral treaties between britain and other countries. Spain, portugal, the netherlands, with initial country. The u.