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  2. Enterprise (slave ship) - Wikipedia

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    In 1840, Hermosa, a US schooner in the coastwise slave trade, carrying 38 slaves from Richmond to New Orleans for sale, went aground on one of the Abacos islands in the Bahamas. After salvors took the ship to port, the captain refused to let the slaves off.

  3. John M. Gilchrist - Wikipedia

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    Gilchrist was born around 1810 in South Carolina. [1] Gilchrist may have been trading as early as 1830, when he would have been about 20 years old, as he placed a newspaper ad in 1840 asserting that he had "for the last ten year had an extensive and large business in trading transactions generally viz: Selling and negociating [] sales of Slaves, Real Estate, Bonds and Mortgages and all kinds ...

  4. List of court cases in the United States involving slavery

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    This case was a precedent for the following one. 1781: Quock Walker v. Jennison: Worcester County Court of Common Pleas: Jennison's slave, Quock Walker, was found to be a freedman on the basis that slavery was contrary to the Bible and the Massachusetts Constitution. 1783: Commonwealth v. Jennison: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

  5. United States v. The Amistad - Wikipedia

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    The historian Samuel Eliot Morison described it in 1969 as the most important court case involving slavery before being eclipsed by that of Dred Scott v. Sandford in 1857. [2] La Amistad was traveling along the coast of Cuba on her way to a port for re-sale of the slaves.

  6. Creole mutiny - Wikipedia

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    "The Creole (Richmond Compiler)" Alexandria Gazette, December 20, 1841The Creole mutiny, sometimes called the Creole case, was a slave revolt aboard the American slave ship Creole in November 1841, when the brig was seized by the 128 slaves who were aboard the ship when it reached Nassau in the British colony of the Bahamas where slavery was abolished.

  7. List of slave traders of the United States - Wikipedia

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    People who dealt in enslaved indigenous persons, such as was the case with slavery in California, would be included. Slave smuggling took advantage of international and tribal boundaries to traffic slaves into the United States from Spanish North American and Caribbean colonies, and across the lands of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muskogee ...

  8. Homestead Acts - Wikipedia

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    Despite the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi provisions for sale of land, the Māori Land Court decided that all land not cultivated by Māori was 'waste land' and belonged to the Crown without purchase. [70] Most provinces in colonial New Zealand had Waste Lands Acts enacted between 1854 and 1877.

  9. Category:1840 in case law - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "1840 in case law" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D. Dangerfield v. Secretary ...

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