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Titles: Opinion of the Attorney General.
Description: The Attorney General, after reviewing the facts of the Amistad Case, believes that the Africans should be returned to Spain under the Treaty of 1795.
Primary Source Publisher: U.S. Government
Secondary Source Publisher: U.S. Government
Secondary Source Publication Date: 4/15/1840
Subject Keywords: Amistad African - Amistad Africans
Other Person - Forsyth, John
Other Person - Gedney, Lieutenant Thomas R.
Vessel - Amistad
Court Related - District Court Trial
Court Related - Supreme Court Trial
Court Related - Law
Other Keyword - Politics
Other Keyword - Diplomacy



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