The African slave trade and American courts
Subtitle: the pamphlets literature
By: edited with an introduction by Paul Finkelman.
Contributors: Finkelman, Paul, 1949-
Series: Slavery, race, and the American legal system -- ser. 5, v. 1
Publisher: Lawbook Exchange
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Clark, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781584777434
Subjects: Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Cases; Slave trade -- Africa -- Cases
Genres: Cases
Notes: Originally published: New York : Garland Publishing, 1988 (Slavery Race and The American Legal System 1700-1872, ser. 5).

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A charge delivered to the grand juries of the Circuit Court, at October term,1819, in Boston, and at November term, 1819, in providence, and published at their unanimous request. (courtesy of the Library of Congress) / Joseph Story; title: A charge delivered to the grand jury of the Circuit Court of the United States, at its first session in Portland, for the judicial district of Maine, May 8, 1820, and published at the unanimous request of the grand jury and of the bar. (courtesy of New York Public Library) / Joseph Story; title: A report of the case of the Jeune Eugenie, determined in the Circuit Court of the United States, for the first circuit, at Boston, December, 1821. (courtesy of the Library of Congress); title: The African captives : trial of the prisoners of the Amistad on the writ of habeaus corpus, before the Circuit Court of the United States, for the district of Connecticut, at Hart Ford; Judges Thompson and Judson. September term, 1839. (courtesy of the Library of Congress); title: A history of the Amistad captives: being a circumstantial account of the capture of the Spanish schooner Amistad, by the Africans on board. (courtesy of New York State Library); title: A brief review of some of the points in the case of the Amistad, and the principles involved. (courtesy of Harvard University Law School); title: Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of the United States, appelants, vs. Cinque, and others, Africans, captured in the schooner Amistad, by Lieut. Gedney, delivered on the 24th of February and 1st of March, 1841. (courtesy of Yale University Library) / John Quincy Adams; title: Argument of Roger S. Baldwin, of New Haven, before the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of the United States, appelants, vs. Cinque, and others, Africans of the Amistad. (courtesy of the Library of Congress) / Roger S. Baldwin.