In World War One not all speech was protected by the First Amendment. November 10, 1919: In the US Supreme Court case Abrams v. United States, the Court upheld the Espionage Act of 1917 aka the Sedition Act. The law made it a criminal offense to utter speech that tended to curtail production of war materials or tended to cause resistance to the US war … [Read more...]
Slave Leader Nat Turner is Convicted for “conspiring to rebel and making insurrection”
Slave Leader Nat Turner is Convicted for "conspiring to rebel and making insurrection" November 5, 1831: In Jerusalem, Virginia, Slave Leader Nat Turner is convicted for "conspiring to rebel and making insurrection" and sentenced to death. Six days later on November 11, Turner was hanged and his body was flayed, beheaded and quartered. In all there … [Read more...]