Title Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States : in the case of the United States, appellants, vs. Cinque, and others, Africans, captured in the schooner Amistad, by Lieut. Gedney, delivered on the 24th of February and 1st of March, 1841 : with a review of the case of the Antelope, reported in the 10th, 11th, and 12th volumes of Wheaton's Reports

Published New York : S.W. Benedict, 1841

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Description 1 online resource (135 pages) Series World trials library. Summary Abolitionists persuaded former President John Quincy Adams to represent the Amistad rebels before the Supreme Court. Adams accepted the invitation, stating that "there is in my estimation no higher object upon earth ... than to occupy that position." The 74-year-old Adams argued that the Africans had "vindicated their own right of liberty" by "executing the justice of Heaven" upon a "pirate murderer, their tyrant and oppressor." Adams, the son of one of America's founders, was the only surviving stateman who had been on close terms with Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe. In the end, the court ruled that the Africans had exercised the right of self-defence since they had been illegally transported as slaves from Africa to Cuba Notes "The case of the Antelope reviewed"--Page 94-134 Database version's imprint obscured by label with script: J.Q. Adams ... Esq. Boston Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Cinque -- Trials, litigation, etc SUBJECT Cinque fast Subject Amistad (Schooner) Antelope (Ship : active 1820) SUBJECT Amistad (Schooner) fast Antelope (Ship : active 1820) fast Subject Fugitive slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States Slavery -- Law and legislation -- Spain Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States Slave rebellions -- Cuba Fugitive slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. Slave rebellions Slavery -- Law and legislation Cuba Spain United States Genre/Form Trials, litigation, etc. Trial and arbitral proceedings. Comptes rendus de procès et d'arbitrage. Form Electronic book Author Cinque LC no. 11027427

Other Titles Case of the Antelope reviewed United States, appellants, vs. Cinque, and others, Africans

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