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Book/Printed Material Report of the trials in the Echo cases, in federal court, Charleston, S.C., April, 1859 : together with arguments of counsel and charge of the court

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Title

  • Report of the trials in the Echo cases, in federal court, Charleston, S.C., April, 1859 : together with arguments of counsel and charge of the court

Names

  • Bates, R. T.
  • Woodruff, J.
  • United States. Circuit Court (4th Circuit)

Created / Published

  • Columbia, S.C. : Steam-power Press of R.W. Gibbes, 1859.

Headings

  • -  Bates, R. T.--Trials, litigation, etc
  • -  Trials (Piracy)--South Carolina--Charleston
  • -  Slave trade--United States
  • -  Enslaved persons--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States
  • -  Echo (Ship)

Notes

  • -  "The cases of the prisoners taken on board the brig Echo, charged with the crime of piracy, for a violation of the laws of the United States in suppression of the foreign slave trade, came on for trial in the Circuit Court of the United States ... These prisoners have been included in two indictments of the ten prisoners, first tried, were as follows: R.T. Bates, Alexander Rogers, Archibald Scott, William Henrys, George P. Aken, John E. Copell, John Pasco, Vital De Miranda, Jose Gonzalez Lima, Antonio Milanovich."--p. [7].

Medium

  • 115 p. ; 23 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • KF223.B38 R47 1859

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 35028643

Online Format

  • online text
  • image
  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Bates, R. T, J Woodruff, and United States Circuit Court. Report of the trials in the Echo cases, in federal court, Charleston, S.C., April,: together with arguments of counsel and charge of the court. Columbia, S.C.: Steam-power Press of R.W. Gibbes, 1859. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/35028643/.

APA citation style:

Bates, R. T., Woodruff, J. & United States Circuit Court. (1859) Report of the trials in the Echo cases, in federal court, Charleston, S.C., April,: together with arguments of counsel and charge of the court. Columbia, S.C.: Steam-power Press of R.W. Gibbes. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/35028643/.

MLA citation style:

Bates, R. T, J Woodruff, and United States Circuit Court. Report of the trials in the Echo cases, in federal court, Charleston, S.C., April,: together with arguments of counsel and charge of the court. Columbia, S.C.: Steam-power Press of R.W. Gibbes, 1859. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/35028643/>.