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Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860


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Report of the trials in the Echo cases, in federal court, Charleston, S.C., April, 1859 : together with arguments of counsel and charge of the court / by J. Woodruff, phonograph reporter.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
Columbia, S.C. : Steam-power Press of R.W. Gibbes, 1859.

NOTES
"The cases of the prisoners taken on board the brig Echo, charged with the crime of piracy, for a violation of the laws of the United States in suppression of the foreign slave trade, came on for trial in the Circuit Court of the United States ... These prisoners have been included in two indictments of the ten prisoners, first tried, were as follows: R.T. Bates, Alexander Rogers, Archibald Scott, William Henrys, George P. Aken, John E. Copell, John Pasco, Vital De Miranda, Jose Gonzalez Lima, Antonio Milanovich."-p. [7].

SUBJECTS
Bates, R. T.--Trials, litigation, etc.
Trials (Piracy)--South Carolina--Charleston.
Slave trade--United States.
Slaves--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States.
Echo (Ship)

RELATED NAMES
Bates, R. T.
Woodruff, J.
United States. Circuit Court (4th Circuit)

MEDIUM
115 p. ; 23 cm.

CALL NUMBER
KF223.B38 R47 1859

DIGITAL ID
llst 038 urn:hdl:loc.law/llst.038 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.law/llst.038

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