The court ruled that it had standing to hear the case and that property claims to the Africans were illegitimate because they were illegally held as slaves. Gedney, USN, the case went to Federal court trial in Connecticut. With multiple property claims made to the Africans by the planters, the government of Spain, and the Washington's commander, Lt. President Martin Van Buren favored extradition of the Africans to Cuba, abolitionists in the North opposed extradition and raised money to defend the Africans. Although the murder charges were dismissed, the Africans continued to be held in confinement as the focus of the case turned to salvage claims and property rights. The planters were freed and the Africans were imprisoned in New Haven, Connecticut on charges of murder. On August 24, La Amistad was seized off Long Island, New York by the U.S. On July 1, the Africans seized the ship, killed the captain and the cook, and ordered the planters to sail to Africa. Fifty-three Africans were purchased by two Spanish planters and put aboard the Cuban schooner La Amistad for shipment to a Caribbean plantation. In February 1839, Portuguese slave hunters abducted a large group of Africans from Sierra Leone and shipped them to Havana, Cuba, a center for the slave trade, violating all treaties then in existence. Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut, seated at Hartford. This warrant for habeas corpus concerning Cinque and his fellow Africans of the Schooner La Amistad was filed in the U.S. View This Record on the National Archives CatalogÄownload Print Warrant for Habeas Corpus, September 21, 1839 Coast Guard History Program has transcribed the circular letter, available here: Alexander Hamilton's Letter of Instructions to the Commanding Officers of the Revenue Cutters Life Saving Service in 1915 to become the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service, which merged with the U.S. The act authorized the construction of ten revenue cutters, establishing what would be known as the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton provides instructions to revenue cutter officers for execution of the Act of Congress entitled, "An Act to provide more effectually for the collection of the duties imposed by law on goods, wares and merchandise imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of ships or vessels," dated Aug(1 Stat. In this circular letter to Benjamin Lincoln, Collector of the Port of Boston, U.S. Download Print Circular from Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln Regarding Instructions to the Officers of the Revenue Cutters, June 4, 1791
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