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Jennings, Paul (1799–1874) – Encyclopedia Virginia

Jennings, Paul (1799–1874) – Encyclopedia Virginia
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White mobs rioted in Washington in 1848 to defend slaveholders rights after 76 Black enslaved people staged an unsuccessful mass escape on a boat

The summer of 2020 was not the first time America saw protests and violence over the treatment of African Americans. An account on April 19, 1848, of the Pearl’s capture appearing in The Daily Union newspaper of Washington, D.C. Library of Congress Long before the demonstrations over Black Lives Matter, long before the marches of the civil rights era, strife over racism convulsed the nation’s capital. But those riots in Washington, D.C., were led by proslavery mobs. In the spring of 1848, conspirators orchestrated one of the largest escapes from slavery in U.S. history. In doing so, they sparked a crisis that entangled advocates for slavery’s abolition, white supremacists, the press and even the president.

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Presidents shouldn t have blanket pardon power

Presidents shouldnât have blanket pardon power Clemency and pardons are ripe for abuse â but ending the practice entirely would be unjust too. By David ShribmanUpdated December 17, 2020, 3:00 a.m. Email to a Friend Michael Flynn, who was President Trump s first national security adviser, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI but got pardoned by Trump.Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg In the next few weeks, President Donald J. Trump, with his unerring instinct for provoking controversy, very likely will issue a flurry of pardons or commutations â to several of his onetime aides, perhaps to whistleblower Edward Snowden or lawyer Rudolph Giuliani, maybe even to members of his family and to himself. A blizzard of outrage will follow, just as it did when Gerald R. Ford pardoned Richard M. Nixon, when George H.W. Bush pardoned former defense secretary Caspar Weinberger and other Iran-Contra officials, when Bill Clinton pardoned financier Marc Rich, and when Barack Obama commuted

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