Amistad Case Echoes in Lincoln Era Debates
An 1839 incident involving enslaved Africans on a Cuban landfall ended in their liberty after a voyage gone awry. John Quincy Adams offered counsel in New Haven, the case reached the U S Supreme Court, and Congress faced claims for damages by Spain amid a pro slavery majority. The column widens to a sensational patent-medicine anecdote about a boy who allegedly regurgitated a silver dollar.
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