Second Short Quiz

[johnkarls]

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1. How was Solomon Northrup freed?

2. Did Lousiana courts have to follow the law of the State of New York where Solomon Northrup had been a free citizen until his kidnapping in Washington DC?

3. Was Solomon Northrup free-born or born a slave who was freed later?

4. Did most Southern States view slaves as just another kind of cattle?

5. Viewed as a kind of cattle, would it have been easier to obtain the release of Solomon Northrup from his Southern slave owner if Solomon had been a slave of a New York slave owner? Or a free man who had been owned by a New York slave owner?

6. In other words, if Solomon Northrup had been a slave in New York at the time he was kidnapped and sold to a succession of slave owners in the South, would the English-American Common Law vis-à-vis Conversion (the civil-law name for theft) have required his current owner after the 12 years of slavery to surrender him to his original New York owner in return for absolutely nothing, even though the current owner had paid full fair market value for Solomon?

7. Is the English-American Common Law vis-à-vis Conversion that applies to such things as cattle rustling, incidentally, what permits the heirs of Holocaust Victims whose fine art was stolen by the Nazis to recover that art for absolutely nothing in return, as soon as the identity of the current “owner” is discovered even though the current “owner” has paid full fair market value for the fine art?

8. Also incidentally, was the “Question Presented For Review” in the litigation of Yours Truly against 15 of the world’s largest financial institutions for the admitted theft of one of his trade secrets, the economic benefit of which had, since before its creation, been pledged in legally-binding fashion to benefit the education of 10 million inner-city children -- in an unsuccessful attempt to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court --

“Can state court judges order their decisions which they know are diametrically-opposed to well-settled law, not to be published or cited (a strategy labeled ‘the segregated toilet’ in correspondence with 51 inner-city clergy who represent the 10 million inner-city children who have been disclosed from the outset as the ‘real parties at interest’ in this law suit) in order to flush away the rights of the 10 million inner-city children without disturbing the rights of first-class American citizens -- without violating the ‘Equal Protection of the Law’ requirement of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution?”

[Additional details are available in the third and fourth sections of http://www.ReadingLiberally-SaltLake.org.]

9. Does Louisiana follow English-American Common Law or, because it was originally a French colony, does it follow the Napoleonic Code like most continental European countries? Is Louisiana the only state in the U.S. to follow the Napoleonic Code rather than English-American Common Law?

10. What does the Napoleonic Code provide in the case of stolen property?

11. Did the United States abolish slavery before or after other countries such as Britain and France?

12. When Abraham Lincoln was first elected President in 1860, did he have to sneak into Washington under cover because of all the assassins who were lying in wait for him?

13. Were there constant assassination threats from 1860 until Lincoln was finally shot by John Wilkes Booth, a well-known actor and not-so-well-known Confederate spy from Maryland, on 4/15/1865, dying the following morning?

14. Was Abraham Lincoln’s Casus Belli the Abolition of Slavery or the Preservation of the Union?

15. Was the fact that Lincoln’s Casus Belli was to Preserve the Union the reason why his Emancipation Proclamation was NOT issued until 1/1/1863, ALMOST TWO YEARS AFTER the 4/12/1861 beginning of the Civil War?

16. Is it conceivable today that America would sacrifice 750 thousand dead and a comparable number of wounded to keep states from leaving the union?

17. When was Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin invented and what effect did it have on slavery in America?

18. According to James Michener, what happened to many of the slave owners following the Civil War?

19. What are the words of the refrain of “16 Tons” which was made famous by Tennessee Ernie Ford in 1955 when it was Number 1 on the Hit Parade?

20. Was slavery really eliminated for share croppers, miners, etc., if they “owe their souls to the company store” and, with each passing day, “get deeper in debt”?

21. How does economic slavery (hopelessly in debt to the company store) compare to America’s modern-day permanent under-caste whose predicament we have studied many times in the past?