The editor of this city’s Whig newspaper dueled a rival editor of this city’s Enquirer for calling him a coward. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this city where John Hampden Pleasants and Thomas Ritchie dueled and where James Callender edited his Recorder newspaper. The enslaved blacksmith who led Gabriel’s Rebellion was hanged in this city in 1800.
ANSWER: Richmond [accept Daily Richmond Whig; accept Richmond Enquirer]
[10e] In the Recorder, Callender published his piece “The President, Again” in which he accused the Virginian president of having an affair with this slave.
ANSWER: Sally Hemings [or Sarah Hemings; accept Sally]
[10h] Callender mysteriously drowned in the James before he was set to testify in this libel trial about Jefferson paying him $100 to attack George Washington in his pamphlet The Prospect Before Us. Alexander Hamilton argued for “the right to publish...truth” in this case.
ANSWER: People v. Croswell [or The People of the State of New York v. Harry Croswell; accept the Croswell case]
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