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Subject(s)

• Amistad (Schooner)—Trials, litigation, etc [Browse]
• Enslaved persons—Legal status, laws, etc—United States—Sources [Browse]
• Slave insurrections—United States [Browse]
• Slave trade—Trials, litigation, etc [Browse]

Related name

• Prechtel-Kluskens, Claire [Browse]
• United States. National Archives and Records Administration [Browse]
• United States. District Court (Connecticut) [Browse]
• United States. Supreme Court [Browse]

Series

Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive: Part II: Slave trade in the Atlantic world. [More in this series]

Summary note

The documents in this collection pertain to the landmark Supreme Court Case involving the Amistad. The collection provides a record of the history of the case from its filing on December 5, 1840, through the Supreme Court's ruling on the case on March 9, 1841, to the Court's issuance of a Mandate to the U.S. State Department on May 4, 1841.

Notes

Reproduction of the originals from the National Archives.

Contents

• Records of the Department of Justice (RG 60)
• Records of the Solicitor of the Treasury (RG 206)
• Records of the U. S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (RG 21)
• Records of the U. S. Circuit for the District of Connecticut (RG 21)
• Records of the U. S. Supreme Court (RG 267).

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Other title(s)

Appellate case file no. 2161, United States v. the Amistad

OCLC

785645827

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