Africans taken in the Amistad
Subtitle: Congressional document, containing the correspondence, &c., in relation to the captured Africans
Contributors: Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848; Forsyth, John, 1780-1841; United States. Department of State
Publisher: For sale at the Anti-Slavery Depository, no. 131 Nassau Street, (Clinton Hall.) Price 12 1/2 cents
Published: 1840
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Slave trade; Slave insurrections; Fugitive slaves; Legal status, laws; Foreign relations; Amistad (Schooner)
Notes: "The message ... communicating to the House of Representatives the action of the Government in relation to the captured Africans, was sent, in consequence of a resolution of the Hon. John Quincy Adams": verso t.p.

Mostly correspondence to and from the secretary of state, John Forsyth.

At head of title: 26th Congress, 1st session. Doc. no. 185. [reprint.] Ho. of Reps. Executive.

Includes translations of Spanish documents.