The Africans was abducted from West Africa and sold to the Spanish slavers

which is in violation of international law.

In 1840 the Mendians' trial began in the District Court in Hartford,

Connecticut. Tappan helped suppress the illegal slave trade which uncovered

evidence to support the Mendians' story. The documents establishing them as

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