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

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05636.08 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: January 1840 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 32.1 cm, Width: 19.8 cm Order a Copy

States "that the Spanish edict prohibiting the importation of slaves from Africa, was not considered as applicable to that Island and was [inserted: then] wholly disregarded after slaves were landed... that the slaves on the plantations kept their native languages for years... that the ships papers, of the Amistad are... in the usual form, & not necessary to practice any fraud to obtain such papers from the proper officers... that the Barracoons are public markets where all description of slaves are bought and sold-" Mentions the deposition of Richard Robert Madden, British superintendent of liberated Africans and former commissioner in the mixed court of justice at Havana, Cuba. Contains several mathematic equations. 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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