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[Fragment of Antonio G. Vega's deposition given to United States District Attorney William S. Holabird] [incomplete]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05636.07 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: January 1840 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 10 cm, Width: 10.7 cm Order a Copy

Date inferred based on the relation of this document to GLC 5636.08 and .09. States "That he is a Spanish subject, that he resided in the Island of Cuba several years, that he knows the law of [struck: Cuba] that island on the subject of Slavery." Possibly created in Connecticut, where the District Court heard the case.

Vega, Antonio G., fl. 1839-1841
Holabird, William S., 1794-1855

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