Friday, December 14, 2012

Lydia Maria Child


 Lydia Marie Child was born on febuary 11, 1802 and died october 20 1880 was a novelist editor journalist and scholar who produced a body of work remarkable for her brilliance and originality all inspired by her strong sense of justice and love of freedom. The youngest of seven children daughter of a housewife and a banker, after her mothers death she moved in with her married sister and she began teaching in 1819 in gardiner, maine. Lydia Child and her husband began to identify themselves with the anti-slavery cause in 1831 through the personal influence and writings of William Lloyd Garrison Child was a women's rights activist, but did not believe significant progress for women could be made until after the abolition of Slavery. In 1833 her book An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans was published. It argued in favor of the immediate emancipation of the slaves without compensation to slaveholders, and she is sometimes said to have been the first white person to have written a book in support of this policy. Was a member of the American Anti-Slavery Society and would also go on to fight for Indian rights.

Johnson V. M'intosh 1823


In the case of Johnson V. M'intosh 1823, although the natives were not present for the court hiring  the constitution not only stripped the rights of the Native American but it also left one of the defendants without a right. The case was called on the dispute over land M'intosh now had ownership of, the Johnson Family where related to the late Johnson and claimed the land was theres through their grandfather. In court the constitution was read word by word forming a vital part of the case it also degraded the power of the natives claiming that although they had lived their before the conquest, that they had no power over their land only those who came to claim it could sell it. M'intosh won the case since he bought it from the government. 

Cherokee Nation v. State of Georgia 1831


In the case of the Cherokee Nation v. State of Georgia 1831 the constitution was a component of discrimination towards native tribes and the rights they could have during the time period. Georgia sought to expand their land by removing the Cherokee nation from the land they had lived in before any conquering had occurred. The Cherokee's felt it was unjust and took the case to court, becoming one of the vital cases in history because the Supreme Court never acknowledged the presence of those who were not even viewed as humans. The constitution role in this claimed the Cherokees had no rights to the land and the case fell through no one ever came again to finalize it and no side won. In the end when the Constitution claimed to give rights to the people, it dehumanized those who had lived in the land freely and before the conquest, the true fathers of the lands could not claim territory for themselves or even be part of the people.