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Letter from John T. Norton to Lewis Tappan

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A letter from John T. Norton acknowledging Lewis Tappan's letter from February 12. Norton reports that during his interview with Simeon Jocelyn, he failed to explain why the "Africans could not be brought here & kept as you proposed." He then reports that Judge Williams "felt he had no right to interfere whilst the subject was before the Supreme Court." Norton writes that he agrees with Tappan that the Africans are "entitled to unqualified freedom." He then asks Tappan to send an issue of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Reporter to Horatio Potter in Albany, New York.
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1841 02 15
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Slavery and the U.S. Supreme Court: The Amistad Case

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