Samuel King led the smaller of the two forces during this event, and it would directly lead to the Supreme Court case of Luther v. Borden seven years later.
Samuel King led the smaller of the two forces during this event, and it would directly lead to the Supreme Court case of Luther v. Borden seven years later. It arose out of a 1663 law that restricted suffrage to men who owned at least 134 dollars of property. The participants declared their own Freemen's Constitution, and when they were opposed by the state legislature, they took military action by attempting to take the Providence arsenal. FTP, identify this uprising of 1842, named for the Rhode Island man who led it.
Samuel King led the smaller of the two forces during this event, and it would directly lead to the Supreme Court case of Luther v. Borden seven years later.
{Dorr}’s Rebellion