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	The Amistad (1841)
		The case was argued, for the United States, by Gilpin, Attorney- General; and by Baldwin and Adams, for the appellees; Jones, on the part of Lieutenant Gedney and others, of the United States brig Washington, was not required by the court to argue the claims to salvage.
		In the case of The Antelope, 10 Wheat.
		In the one case, it is the execution of a law, by an executive officer, through the medium or in connection with the courts; in the other case, it is the execution of a treaty in a similar manner.
	www.brownat50.org /brownCases/19thCenturyCases/Amistad1841.html (13438 words)

	Amistad (case) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		La Amistad (Spanish: friendship) was a Spanish merchant ship on which a rebellion by the African slaves it was carrying broke out in 1839 when the schooner was traveling along the coast of Cuba.
		A case before the Circuit Court in Hartford, Connecticut, was filed in September 1839, alleging mutiny and murder.
		The United States faced an incident similar to the Amistad case in the Creole case of 1841.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amistad_(case) (1704 words)

	Guantánamo, Dred Scott and the Amistad \| Progressive U
		In the Amistad case, the Supreme Court courageously held that human rights and the rule of law must apply to captives who had been seized in Africa and imprisoned in the United States.
		The Amistad captives were mostly Mendi people -- men and children abducted in their homeland of Sierra Leone, shipped to Cuba and sold as slaves.
		The pending action in the Guantánamo cases will test whether it wishes to be remembered along with the authors of the monstrous Dred Scott decision or rather with the friends of freedom who defended the human rights of the Amistad captives.
	www.progressiveu.org /221046-guantanamo-dred-scott-and-the-amistad (1172 words)

	Achievement First > New Haven, CT
		In 2001, 64 percent of Amistad eighth-graders met the state goal in writing on the Connecticut Mastery Test, beating the state average of 59 percent.
		Amistad also beat the city average and came close to the state average in math and reading.
		Amistad teachers follow a structured curriculum based on Connecticut's academic standards, and teachers are evaluated based on how well children are meeting those standards.
	www.achievementfirst.org /news.article021010.html (620 words)

	Amistad review
		Amistad begins with the event that made that ship's history different from other slave ships: the gradual extraction of a nail from the ship which allowed Cinque (also known as Sengbe) to free first himself and then the other slaves on board.
		The crucial treaty governing the case was not only the one from 1795, which might require the slaves to be returned to Spain, but also the 1817 Anglo-Spanish treaty which outlawed the purchase of Africans in Africa for enslavement and the 1819 American-Spanish treaty which confirmed the 1795 Pinckney treaty (pp.
		Given that Amistad is one of the three initial films to be released by DreamWorks (along with the less-than-thrilling Peacemaker and the new film Mouse Hunt), company marketers realized that they needed success with Amistad or the company's first year would have to be considered a bust.
	history.sandiego.edu /gen/filmnotes/amistad-review.html (2816 words)

	THE AMISTAD – ANOTHER "CHIEF SEATTLE" HOAX
		Antelope case, quoted on pp 7-10, lays the blame for the existence of slavery squarely where it belongs: on the Africans.
		Amistad was not deemed worthy of mention in 1911, or in the 1930s, why should the same case be of earth-shaking importance in the 1990s?
		The Anna case was, and is, considered to be of crucial importance to international law.
	www.cwporter.com /amistadhoax.htm (3133 words)

	RACE ON TRIAL: LAW AND JUSTICE IN AMERICAN HISTORY
		She defends this formal case method of legal and racial analysis by asserting that "cases — trials in particular — provide critical insights into the values, mores, obsessions, and aspirations (lived up to and not) of members of the community at particular moments in history" (p.4).
		Howard Jones' chapter, "The Impact of the AMISTAD Case on Race and Law in America (1841)," provides a fascinating analysis of the legal intricacies of "the only instance in history in which captured Africans brought to the New World won their freedom and returned to their homeland" (p.14).
		In short, this chapter could be improved by emphasizing that the case was not decided solely on the constitutionality of the ends of race-based affirmative action, but focused in addition on the fit between the means, targets, and the ends of a policy that categorizes and prefers disadvantaged and/or racial minority students.
	www.bsos.umd.edu /gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/gordon-reed-annette.htm (3465 words)

	Web Page - narrative (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		case was one of the most famous federal cases of the nineteenth century and attracted great public attention at each stage of its movement through the nation’s judiciary.
		The role of the Africans as parties in the case drew attention to the personal tragedies of slavery and attracted new support for the growing anti-slavery movement in the United States.
		At the November session of the district court, the Mende formally entered the case as respondents to the several claims alleging that they were slaves.
	www.fjc.gov /history/amistad.nsf/page/narrative (2481 words)

	"Lessons for Life" Curriculum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		AMISTAD America, Inc. is pleased to announce the creation of the "Lessons for Life" Curriculum.
		The Amistad Incident of 1839 is an international story rooted in Connecticut that reflects the struggle for equality and human rights.
		After 63 days, La Amistad and her African "cargo" were seized as salvage by the United States Naval Revenue Cutter USS Washington near Montauk Point, Long Island, New York, and towed to Connecticut’s New London harbor.
	www.amistadamerica.org /index.cfm?fuseaction=home.viewpage&page_id=2CBCB445-9542-3E43-F23D3ECC1667FE6F (471 words)

	Amistad: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Amistad committee continued to instruct the Africans in English and Christianity (Christianity: A monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior) and collected donations to pay for their return.
		In March 2000 a replica of the Amistad was launched from Mystic Seaport (Mystic Seaport: mystic seaport is a maritime museum in mystic, connecticut....
		The United States faced a similar incident in the Creole case (Creole case: the creole case was an incident in american history that began in 1841 on board a brig...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/amistad (1322 words)

	Academic Rigor Is Focus in Conn.
		Putting a positive twist on the less savory aspects of youth culture is one of the unlikely techniques that have helped propel the New Haven public charter school to the forefront of a nationwide drive to close the "achievement gap" that separates minority students from white counterparts.
		Amistad is part an informal network of "no excuses" schools challenging the notion that fl and Hispanic students are doomed to perform at a lower level than their white and Asian American counterparts.
		Key to the Amistad formula, teachers and students say, is an obsessive attention to detail and a highly regulated system of reward and punishment that keeps the 275 pupils focused on improving their academic performance.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/13/AR2005051301393.html (721 words)

	Civil Rights in Connecticut
		The question of slavery was yet to be decided by a civil war, and the bulk of civil rights legislation would not become a reality for over one hundred years.
		The Amistad, 40 U.S. 518, 15 Peters 518, 10 L.Ed.
		The case centered around the claim of overcharging based on racial bias.
	www.jud.state.ct.us /lawlib/History/civilrights.htm (246 words)

	Social Studies In Action: The Amistad Case
		The case is sent to the U.S. Supreme Court, where the Africans continue to be defended by abolitionists and now by former president John Quincy Adams.
		The Supreme Court decides that the Africans' actions on the Amistad were based on the "ultimate right of all human beings in extreme cases to resist oppression, and to apply force against ruinous injustice," and releases them as free people.
		In the course of preparing and conducting a mock trial, students study the facts of the case, prepare opening statements, present evidence, cite relevant laws and information, examine and cross-examine witnesses, conduct redirect examination, present closing arguments, arrive at a verdict, and state the reasoning behind the decision.
	learner.org /channel/libraries/socialstudies/6_8/fisher/background.html (552 words)

	Law in America, Chapter IV: Famous Trials
		Following are cases whose notoriety has been lasting, not momentary as with Media Sensations (see Chapter 7), but also not constitutionally important, as with Landmark Cases (see Chapter 6.) The cases presented here, rather, focus on, and are grouped according to vital issues that occupy American legal thought: race and prejudice, politics, labor, and radicalism.
		The prosecuting counsel based his case on the Biblical statement, "Thou shalt not permit a witch to live." The prosecutors learned from contemporary scholars that witches' bodies bore a "devil's mark," which could be any suspicious mark or lump.
		After two cases were transferred to a juvenile court, seven of the Scottsboro Boys stood trial again in late 1934, this time before a judge who was not sympathetic to the defense, resulting in yet another death sentence.
	www.hlla.com /reference/lawinamerica.html (6438 words)

	THE AMISTAD, 40 U.S. 518 (1841) -- US Supreme Court Cases from Justia & Oyez
		Page 40 U.S. The court, as far as respected the decree of the district court allowing salvage on the goods on board the Amistad, continued the case, to await the decision of the supreme court, on that part of the decree appealed from.
		When, under color of those passports, they fraudulently put on board the Amistad, Bozals, who by the laws of Spain could not be slaves, we surely manifest no dsre spect to the acts of the governor, by giving efficacy to the laws of Spain, and denying to Ruiz and Montez the benefit of their fraud.
		As no decision was given by the court on this point, and the argument in support of the motion, and on behalf of the apel lees, has not been reported, that in reply, and in behalf of the United States, as appellants, is also necessarily omitted.
	supreme.justia.com /us/40/518/case.html (13421 words)

	The Amistad Revolt
		The Amistad Case provided a focal point for rallying the dispersed ranks of the abolitionists, as they all came out in defense of the captives, fully convinced of their innocence.
		To have pegged the Amistad Case to a general campaign for the abolition of slavery would have alienated their sympathy, thus weakening the financial and moral base of the Committee.
		By the time the Amistad Case came to an end, it had so embittered feelings between the anti-slavery North and the slave-holding South that it must be counted as one of the events leading to the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1860.
	usinfo.state.gov /products/pubs/amistad (5567 words)

	Amistad Revisited At Guantanamo?
		In the 1841 Amistad case - vividly portrayed in Stephen Spielberg's movie "Amistad" - the U.S. Supreme Court courageously held that human rights and the rule of law must apply to captives who had been seized in Africa and imprisoned in the United States.
		The Amistad captives were seized in Africa, shipped to Cuba and sold as slaves.
		The executive's position in the Amistad case met withering scorn from former President John Quincy Adams - inspiringly portrayed in Spielberg's movie by Anthony Hopkins - who defended the Amistad captives before the Supreme Court.
	www.commondreams.org /views03/1205-12.htm (851 words)

	78.02.09: Two Controversial Cases in New Haven History: The Amistad Affair (1839) and The Black Panther Trials (1970)
		The Panther case was not one in which a slave called out for basic Constitutional protection, as in the Amistad Affair, but rather one which called attention to the need for re-examination of the judicial system and its treatment of fls—one which called for the rights of fls as first-class citizens.
		The similarities of the two cases converge at one crucial point—the revolts took place as a result of a denial to fls of equal rights and protection under the law.
		The Amistad Affair, which lasted approximately seven years, planted one of the seeds that led to the Civil War and ultimately clarified the status of fls in the United States.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1978/2/78.02.09.x.html (2966 words)

	FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
		& Cres. 448, 'that which is called comitas inter communitates, cannot prevail in any case, where it violates the law of our own country, the law of nature, or the law of God.' 9 Eng.
		When, under color of those passports, they fraudulently put on board the Amistad, Bozals, who by the laws of Spain could not be slaves, we surely manifest no dsre spect to the acts of the governor, by giving efficacy to the laws of Spain, and denying to Ruiz and Montez the benefit of their fraud.
		The custom-house license, to which the name of Espeleta in print was appended, was not a decument given or intended to be used as evidence of property between Ruiz and Montez, and the
	caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /scripts/getcase.pl?navby=search&court=US&case=/us/40/518.html (12867 words)

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	Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860
		Stewart, the Amistad case, the Dred Scott decision, and the trials of the rebel Denmark Vesey, the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, and the abolitionist and rebel John Brown are included, as are less well-known cases.
		The materials on the Amistad case might be paired with a viewing of the movie Amistad for a discussion about how history is presented in different media.
		Analyzing how people presented themselves and their ideas in these cases encourages students to think about the multiple perspectives contained in any primary or secondary source, and about the challenges of studying and writing history.
	chnm.gmu.edu /worldhistorysources/r/137/whm.html (439 words)

	John A. Williams Online Exhibit, Univ. of Rochester: case thirteen
		Williams was elected a fellow with the Black Academy of Arts and Letters, and was presented with this certificate in Boston, April 1969.
		Unfortunately, this kind of partnership, or co-editorship, only works in some cases; this was not one of them.
		Williams with Charles F. Harris at the Random House reception for Amistad.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /index.cfm?page=2992 (694 words)

	Cornell News: Amistad lawsuit website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Legal Information Institute (LII) at Cornell University has devoted a world wide web site to the case, in which one of Hollywood's major players is accused of plagiarism by an award-winning author.
		Also contained on the web site is background information on the Amistad revolt of 1839 and the ensuing U.S. Supreme Court case, salvage law and its development, and a generous compilation of key copyright law rulings.
		Peil said as soon as the case is resolved, whether it be a settlement between parties or a decision on whether to grant a preliminary injunction, the LII web site will post the information.
	www.news.cornell.edu /releases/Dec97/amistad.dg.html (436 words)

	The Right to Private Property [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		They're important in their relationship to other things, whereas in the case of human beings it is everyone's individuality that matters most, especially in those most significant personal or intimate relationships.
		But Hobbes rested his case on extrapolating the principles of classical mechanistic physics to human life, a move that is not at all justified.
		A good case in point is John Locke, among the early liberals, and many others such as Ayn Rand, Eric Mack, Douglas B. Rasmussen, Douglas J. Den Uyl, Fred D. Miller, Jr., and the late David L. Norton, in our own age.
	www.iep.utm.edu /p/property.htm (8517 words)

	Reading: Poetry Society of America Writers on Poets Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Union defended the Internet critics, the first case in the country to test the boundaries of free speech and the right to remain anonymous in an Internet forum webmaster The Internet critics.
		it was the first case in the country to test the boundaries of free speech and the right to remain anonymous in an Internet forum, Country to test the boundaries of free speech and the right to remain anonymous in an Internet forum.
		First case in the country to test the boundaries of free speech and the right to remain anonymous in an Internet forum.
	jefferson.village.virginia.edu /~luoma/peace/dist/fdir/AaDcBZHATZaqbi.html (2407 words)

	medical malpractice court cases Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		As in other medical malpractice cases, expert medical.....of a malpractice claim where the court refused to uphold a finding.....non-economic damages in medical malpractice...
		Research: The debate over medical necessity in case law and government/industry forums Other Research: malpractice liability standards ©1998 Monica Miller On behalf of the Foundation for...
		Financial planning expert Ronald E. Hudkins gives an overview of the circumstances upon which a trust is revocable, and when or under what circumstances a trust becomes irrevocable.
	malpracticenet.com /directory/medical-malpractice-court-cases.html (304 words)

	Burton Does It: Congress Panel Subpoenas Cuban Boy [Free Republic]
		The case has prompted an angry custody battle and pitted the Cuban government against opponents of Castro in Miami.
		If he's here, the father could come over and make his case before a family court in Fla, and perhaps the decision would be to send the child back to Cuba with his father.
		And in case you are assuming that Castro's regime will pass in a few years, gamble your own life on a hope like that.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3876a0be68c4.htm (5867 words)

	Amistad Webquest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In order for you to decide whether the Africans should be set free or forced into slavery, it is necessary that you investigate the period of time in history so that you will be able to argue your case properly and present the best possible case.
		Each of you will be assigned to one of the groups involved in the Amistad case.
		The prosecution will begin to present his or her case, and the defense will follow the same.
	www.bethel.k12.ct.us /bms/resources/webquests/Amistad/amistadwebquest.htm?a=http://www.bethel.k12.ct.us/bms/resources/webquests/Amistad/amistadwebquest.htm (707 words)

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