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The 1735 trial of printer John Peter Zenger is remembered as a foundational moment in the history of press freedom in colonial New York. Far less known is the case of Juan Miranda, the first enslaved man to take his enslaver to the colony’s Supreme Court to fight for his own freedom.

From insurgency in Europe to Abolitionism in the United States, Friedrich Hecker’s transatlantic odyssey illuminates broader patterns of cultural exchange, social reform, and political integration that have defined the American historical experience.