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Letter to Theodore Sedgwick
| dc.contributor.author | Tappan, Lewis, 1788-1873 | en_US |
| dc.coverage.spatial | New York, New York | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2009-02-13T20:56:14Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2009-02-13T20:56:14Z | |
| dc.date.created | September 3, 1840 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2009-02-13T20:56:14Z | |
| dc.identifier.other | GL0060_001 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | GL0060_002 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | GL0060_003 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | GL0060 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/62401 | |
| dc.description | Letter written from New York, dated September 3, 1840, to Theodore Sedgwick regarding the plight of the Amistad captives. Tappan writes, "I feel a strong desire to try the writ of Habeas Corpus with reference to the Africans. It is a monstrous perversion of justice to retain these men for political considerations - monstrous!" The Circuit Court's Judge Thompson, hearing an appeal in May, had denied bail to the Amistad captives. The letter mentions Roger S. Baldwin and the question of admitting authentic copies of treaties. | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Gilder Lehrman Collection | en_US |
| dc.rights | Gilder Lehrman Collection | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | http://www.freedomcenter.org/about-us/contact-us/ | en_US |
| dc.subject | Tappan, Lewis, 1788-1873 -- Correspondence | en_US |
| dc.subject | Sedgwick, Theodore, -- 1780-1839 | en_US |
| dc.subject | Amistad (Schooner) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Slave insurrections -- United States | en_US |
| dc.subject | Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Cases. | en_US |
| dc.title | Letter to Theodore Sedgwick | en_US |
| dc.type | Autograph letter signed | en_US |
| dc.publisher.digital | National Underground Railroad Freedom Center | en_US |
| dc.contributor.repository | Gilder Lehrman Collection at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center | en_US |
| dc.repository.place | Cincinnati, Ohio | en_US |
| dc.rights.permissions | World | en_US |
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