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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC05795.01 |
| From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to 1840 |
| Title | Message from the President of the United States and correspondence related to Africans taken in the Amistad [in English and Spanish] |
| Date | 15 April 1840 |
| Author | United States. Congress. |
| Document Type | Pamphlet; Government document |
| Content Description | 26th, 1st Session, 1840. Contains correspondence between Pedro Alcantara de Argaiz, Spanish minister at Washington, D.C., and John Forsyth, Secretary of State. Contains Spanish and English versions. In a letter to Forsyth, Argaiz writes "Under the circumstances herein set forth, the undersigned, minister of her Catholic Majesty, finds himself under the disagreeable necessity of protesting fully and with all necessary energy, against the order issued for the imprisonment of Don Jose Ruiz and Don Pedro Montes, and he asks the Executive Power of the Union to use all the means which it derives from the laws, most especially from the law of habeas corpus, and thus direct the said Spaniards to be liberated..." |
| Subjects | Congress Government and Civics Amistad Slave Trade Slavery African American History Law Global History and Civics Foreign Affairs Latin and South America Caribbean Prisoner Maritime |
| People | Van Buren, Martin (1782-1862) Forsyth, John (1780-1841) |
| Place written | Washington, D.C. |
| Theme | The Presidency; Government & Politics; Slavery & Abolition; African Americans; Naval & Maritime; Merchants & Commerce; Foreign Affairs |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859 |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |