1. The Amistad Captives
One of these people was Senator John Calhoun. ... At this time John Quincy Adams enters the case. ... Together, Roger Baldwin and Adams worked together. John Quincy Adams expressed the following in a letter dated November 19, 1839: "They were victims of the African slave trade, recently imported into the island of Cuba, in gross violation of the laws of the Island and of Spain; and by acts which our own laws have made piracy - punishable with death". John Quincy Adams criticized the President's actions. ...
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