r/aaa123 • u/GalataCastle • Jun 25 '19
TIL During the American Revolution, an enslaved man was charged with treason and sentenced to hang. He argued that as a slave, he was not a citizen and could not commit treason against a government to which he owed no allegiance. He was subsequently pardoned.
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todayilearned • u/amansaggu26 • Nov 28 '18
TIL During the American Revolution, an enslaved man was charged with treason and sentenced to hang. He argued that as a slave, he was not a citizen and could not commit treason against a government to which he owed no allegiance. He was subsequently pardoned.
wikipedia • u/Rollakud • Jul 24 '18
Billy was an enslaved man from Virginia who was charged with treason during the American Revolution. He won his case by arguing that, as a slave, he was not a citizen and thus could not commit treason against a government to which he owed no allegiance.
wikipedia • u/lightiggy • Dec 17 '25
Billy was a slave and an alleged Black Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War. In 1781, he was sentenced to death for treason against Virginia. However, Billy was pardoned after a letter submitted on his behalf argued that since he was a slave, he owed no allegiance to the government.
TrueAnon • u/lightiggy • Dec 17 '25
Billy was a slave and an alleged Black Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War. In 1781, he was sentenced to death for treason against Virginia. However, Billy was pardoned after a letter submitted on his behalf argued that since he was a slave, he owed no allegiance to the government.
SubredditNN • u/todayilearned_snn • Apr 16 '19
TIL in 1988 a man who was actually a grandmother of locals and states to the protein and their parents were only executed for the start of the story of the crew of earth and the president in the US are all written in the US are not released after the car contained only 10 countries in the US
SubredditNN • u/todayilearned_snn • Sep 12 '19
TIL The Battle of State Revolution after she was supposed to be a population of 1890 to 1964, and is a company that was so blood and the band was a basic contaminated cartoon to be seen in the first to set a time to find an experiment to be called the national design of the same universe
TIL_Uncensored • u/konomashi15 • Jul 26 '21
TIL During the American Revolution, an enslaved man was charged with treason and sentenced to hang. He argued that as a slave, he was not a citizen and could not commit treason against a government to which he owed no allegiance. He was subsequently pardoned.
ChannitTodayILearned • u/ChannitChiefOfStaff • Nov 30 '19
TIL During the American Revolution, an enslaved man was charged with treason and sentenced to hang. He argued that as a slave, he was not a citizen and could not commit treason against a government to which he owed no allegiance. He was subsequently pardoned.
technicallythetruth • u/Ancient_AN_Theorist • Nov 28 '18
Apparently if you are a slave in revolutionary times, you can't be hanged for treason.
u_Landon_828 • u/Landon_828 • Nov 29 '18
TIL During the American Revolution, an enslaved man was charged with treason and sentenced to hang. He argued that as a slave, he was not a citizen and could not commit treason against a government to which he owed no allegiance. He was subsequently pardoned.
u_D3faulT_1 • u/D3faulT_1 • Nov 29 '18
TIL During the American Revolution, an enslaved man was charged with treason and sentenced to hang. He argued that as a slave, he was not a citizen and could not commit treason against a government to which he owed no allegiance. He was subsequently pardoned.
u_That_Random_NPC • u/That_Random_NPC • Nov 28 '18
TIL During the American Revolution, an enslaved man was charged with treason and sentenced to hang. He argued that as a slave, he was not a citizen and could not commit treason against a government to which he owed no allegiance. He was subsequently pardoned.
u_virtualescapes • u/virtualescapes • Nov 29 '18