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Titles: The Amistad
Decision of Judge Thompson
Description: A summary of Judge Thompson's decision to deny the Amistad Africans discharge under the writ of habeas corpus.
Primary Source Publisher: New York Commercial Advertiser
Primary Source Publication Date: 9/24/1839
Subject Keywords: Amistad African - Amistad Africans
Court Related - Habeas Corpus
Other Person - Thompson, Justice Smith
Court Related - District Court Trial
Place - New Haven, Connecticut
Place - Montauk Point, Long Island, New York
Other Person - Gedney, Lieutenant Thomas R.
Court Related - Circuit Court
Court Related - Law
Courtesy of: microfilm, Harvard University



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