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Titles: The Captured Slaves
Description: More details of capture of Amistad; Gedney and crew encouraged to seek salvage rights; identification of Amistad Africans; brief review of events for Amistad captives since being taken from Africa; discussion of issues of their case and prediction of their likely fate.
Primary Source Publisher: New York Morning Herald
Primary Source Publication Date: 9/2/1839
Subject Keywords: Amistad African - Amistad Africans
Other Keyword - Capture
Other Person - Gedney, Lieutenant Thomas R.
Other Person - Meade, Lieutenant Richard W.
Court Related - Law
Other Keyword - Politics
Place - Africa
Courtesy of: microfilm, Harvard University



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