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Titles: The Captives of the Amistad
Mr. Adams' Arguments
Creator/Author: J.L.
Description: The first installment of a Newspaper correspondant's summary of J.Q. Adams' opening argument.
Primary Source Publisher: New York Journal of Commerce
Primary Source Publication Date: 2/26/1841
Subject Keywords: Amistad African - Amistad Africans
Court Related - Supreme Court Trial
Other Keyword - Executive
Other Keyword - Judiciary
Other Keyword - Treaties
Other Person - Calderon de la Barca, Angel
Other Person - Gedney, Lieutenant Thomas R.
Other Person - Adams, John Quincy
Vessel - Amistad
Court Related - Law



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