Records of the U.S. District and Circuit Courts for the district of Connecticut : documents relating to the various cases involving the Spanish Schooner Amistad.

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	1815-1858.
Description:	1 online resource (781 images).
Language:	English
Series:	Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 2. Slave trade in the Atlantic world Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 2. Slave trade in the Atlantic world.
Subject:	Amistad (Schooner) Amistad (Schooner) Slave insurrections -- United States -- Sources. Slave insurrections. United States. Sources.
Format:	E-Resource
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10527388

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Other authors / contributors:	United States. National Archives and Records Administration.
Notes:	Reproduction of the originals from the National Archives.
Summary:	These records provide backgrounds, proceedings, and rulings of the several branches of the Connecticut courts that tried the first series of landmark cases involving the Amistad. Included are: legal documents pertaining to Thomas R. Gedney v. Schooner Amistad (1839, 1840, 1841, 1845); U.S. v. Cinque and the Africans (1839); U.S. v. Fagnannah (1839); and Pedro Montes and Juan Ruiz v. Merchandize (1840); habeas corpus proceedings (In the Matter of Habeas Corpus for the Three African Girls [1839]); docket books of relevant cases (1816-1841, 1815-1843); and final record books (1831-1843, 18431858).

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