1. The Amistad Captives
Roger Baldwin was a New Haven with a reputation of defending the unfortunate (Biographies of players in the Amistad Affair). Baldwin argued that "Ruiz and Montes were the criminals, not the Africans who fought for their freedom, and that the two Cubans deserve the penalty of death for piracy" (Biographies of players in the Amistad Affair). ... He attempted to introduce amendments to the Constitution in 1839, which would prevent any person born in the United States from being born a slave (Biographies of players in the Amistad Affair). ...
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