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- GLC#
- GLC05636.17-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- September 23, 1839
- Author/Creator
- Forsyth, John, 1780-1841
- Title
- to William S. Holabird
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 25.5 cm, Width: 20.3 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Forsyth states: "It is necessary to a just decision on the various points presenting themselves for the President's consideration in the case of the Spanish Schooner 'Amistad,' that the Department should be furnished, with a copy of the ships' papers, together with a transcript of the proceedings of the Court of Inquiry held by the District Judge, on board that vessel, to which you refer in your letter of the 5th instant, and on which the Blacks were imprisoned for the alleged murder of the Captain and Mate..."
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