Africans taken in the Amistad
Subtitle: congressional document, containing the correspondence, &c., in relation to the captured Africans
Contributors: Forsyth, John, 1780-1841; United States. President (1837-1841 : Van Buren); United States. President (1825-1829 : Adams)
Series: Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive; Slavery & anti-slavery
Publisher: Anti-Slavery Depository
Published: 1840
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Slave trade; Slave insurrections; Fugitive slaves; Legal status, laws; Foreign relations; Amistad (Schooner)
Notes: "26th Congress, 1st Session. Doc. No. 185. [Reprint.] Ho. of reps. Executive."

"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.

Originally published as House Ex. doc. 185, 26th Cong., 1st sess., with title: Africans taken in the Amistad: message from the President of the United States transmitting the information required by the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 23d ultimo, in relation to the Africans taken in the vessel called the Amistad, &c.

Includes translations of Spanish documents.

Reproduction of the original from the Oberlin College Library. Reproduced courtesy of World Microfilms Publications.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.