[DOC] [TLE] Adams begins arguments in the Amistad case - Feb 24, 1840 ... [PAR] On this day in 1840, former President John Quincy Adams begins to argue the 
Amistad case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. ... The African mutineers then 
promised to spare the lives of the ship's crew and their captors if they took ... no 
code, no treaty, except that lawwhich [is] forever before the eyes of your Honors
.. [DOC] [TLE] John Quincy Adams and the Amistad case, 1841 | The Gilder ... [PAR] Instead, the ship was seized off Long Island by a US revenue cutter on August 24
, 1839. ... Abolitionists enlisted former US President John Quincy Adams to 
represent the Amistad captives' petition for freedom before the Supreme Court. [DOC] [TLE] United States v. The Amistad - Wikipedia [PAR] United States v. Schooner Amistad, 40 U.S. 518 (1841), was a United States 
Supreme Court ... The masters of La Amistad were the ship's captain Ramn 
Ferrer, Jos Ruiz, and Pedro ..... John Quincy Adams later argued this issue 
before the Supreme Court in 1841, saying, ... Covey was a former slave from 
West Africa. [DOC] [TLE] Argument of John Quincy Adams, Before the Supreme Court [PAR] 1841. Argument of John Quincy Adams before the Supreme Court of the ... lives 
and liberties have already been defended by my learned friend and colleague in 
.... "Resolved--That a ship or vessel on the high seas, in time of peace, engaged 
in .... Don Pedro Montes: of whom the former was owner of forty-nine of the slaves
,... [DOC] [TLE] The Amistad Case | National Archives [PAR] On July 1, 1839, the Africans seized the ship, killed the captain and the cook, and 
... to the Supreme Court in January 1841, and former President John Quincy 
Adams ... Adams defended the right of the accused to fight to regain their freedom
. [DOC] [TLE] John Quincy Adams [ushistory.org] [PAR] John Quincy Adams. ... presented to Congress. He also successfully defended 
enslaved Africans before the U.S. Supreme Court in the celebrated Amistad case. [DOC] [TLE] John Quincy Adams Argues the Amistad Case (1841) [PAR] An unusually dramatic event occurred in the old Supreme Court chamber on 
February 24, 1841, when former President John Quincy Adams rose to argue... [DOC] [TLE] Amistad mutiny | North American-African history | Britannica.com [PAR] (July 2, 1839), slave rebellion that took place on the slave ship Amistad near the 
coast of ... antislavery forces resulted in 1841 when the U.S. Supreme Court freed 
the rebels. ... Court the next year, congressman and former president John 
Quincy Adams argued ... Adams defended them as freemen before the Supreme. [DOC] [TLE] Historic Context - Reel American History - Films - List [PAR] Men, women, and children were packed into the slave ship Tecora in unruly ... 
Only slaves who had been in Cuba before 1820 could be legally shipped. .... and 
John Quincy Adams, former president of the United States, defended the .... On 
March 9, 1841, the Supreme Court concluded its decision on the Amistad case. [DOC] [TLE] ELIZABETH ALEXANDER'S AMISTAD: Reading the Black ... - JStor [PAR] briefly summarize, in 1839 the slave ship Amistad was traveling from Havana to 
... Administration appealed the decision up to the United States Supreme Court, 
... John Quincy Adams argued on behalf of the Africans in 1841. .... "before." 
Thirteen of the poem's eighteen lines begin with the wo foregrounds ... After the 
mutiny. [DOC] [TLE] 3 - Picturing US History - White into Black: Seeing Race, Slavery ... [PAR] In 1839, a group of captive West Africans took over a Spanish slave ship called 
the ... Abolitionists came to their support, including ex-President John Quincy 
Adams who represented them in court. ... He say I kill plenty Mendi men before 
he die, he say so. .... In 1841, the Supreme Court decided in favor of the 
mutineers. [DOC] [TLE] Massachusetts Historical Society: The Case for Ending Slavery [PAR] John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) served as the sixth

Question: In 1841 ex-president John Quincy Adams represented the mutineers of this ship before the Supreme Court
Answer: the Amistad