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A letter from John Forsyth acknowledging the receipt of the application by the counsel for the Africans to admit as evidence to the Circuit Court: "the decree of the king of Spain of 1817, the ordinance of the Queen of the 2nd Nov 1838, and the treaty between Spain and Great Britain of 1817." Forsyth writes that the President is of the opinion that "he has no right whatever to interpose in the manner desired of him" and sees no reason to deny such application provided the counsel for the Africans extend the same admissions of evidence to W. S. Holabird.
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1840 04 30
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- America
- Amistad (Schooner)
- Antislavery Movements
- Correspondence
- History
- Slave Insurrections
- Slave Trade
- Slaver
- United States
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