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Titles: Richard Madden's District Court deposition
Other Contributor: Ingersoll, Charles A.
Description: In his deposition Dr. Richard R. Madden, a British official residing in Cuba, speaks about the Cuban slave trade and the means by which it thrives beneath the laws set up for its prevention.
Primary Source Publisher: U.S. Government
Primary Source Publication Date: 11/20/1839
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Subject Keywords: Amistad African - Amistad Africans
Amistad African - Ba
Amistad African - Sa
Amistad African - Cinque
Amistad African - Sessi
Amistad African - Shuma
Amistad African - Tsukama
Court Related - District Court Trial
Other Keyword - African Slave Trade
Other Keyword - Barracoon
Other Keyword - Plantation
Other Keyword - Cuban Slave Trade
Other Keyword - Slavery
Amistad African - Bozal
Other Person - Creole
Other Person - Holabird, William S.
Other Person - Ladino
Other Person - Madden, Dr. Richard R.
Other Person - Montez, Pedro
Other Person - Ruiz, Jose
Place - Cuba
Place - Havana, Cuba
Courtesy of: microfilm, National Archives Reel 98-4



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