Description
A letter with enclosed correspondence from John Quincy Adams to the Amistad Committee [enclosure not present]. In the letter, Ellis Gray Loring asks for a response to Adams' questions. Loring questions Judge Thomson's opinion regarding habeas corpus and suggests publication of a speech against "claiming salvage in human beings" in a "newspaper of considerable circulation."
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1839 10 07
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Amistad Research CenterKeywords
- America
- Amistad (Schooner)
- Antislavery Movements
- Correspondence
- History
- Slave Insurrections
- Slave Trade
- Slaver
- United States