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Identifier: newenglandmagazi1900bost (find matches)
Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
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ens haddragged from its founda-tions the building of theiacademy, because itsdoors had been opened toi colored students; inCanterbury, Connecticut,Miss Prudence Crandall,la Friend, had been com-mitted to jail for no othercrime than that of teach-ing colored girls in herschool; in New York,Lewis Tappans househad been sacked; in Cin-cinnati, the mob hadwrought its will on theproperty and presses ofthe Philanthropist; in theCity of Brotherly Love,Pennsylvania Hall hadbeen burned by a mob;in Boston, another mobhad broken up with yellsand rude attacks a meet-about thirty ladies whowished to discuss slavery; the Eng-lish orator, George Thompson, hadbeen threatened with the tar ket-tle, and William Lloyd Garrison hadbeen dragged by a rope through thestreets—all to show that Bostoncherished rational and correct no-tions on the subject of slavery; andthe Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy had beenkilled by a mob at Alton, Illinois, forprinting antislavery articles. In the ing of THE AMISTAD CAPTIVES. 75
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THE HOUSE AT MONTAUK POINT TO WHICHTAKEN. South there was only one opinion thatcould be expressed with safety to life.Truly it was not a propitious mo-ment for a company of ignorant ref-ugees, members of a despised race, toappear in northern waters. The question of jurisdiction in-volved some delay and careful investi-gation. Ought the case to comebefore the courts of New York orthose of Connecticut? Accurate sound-ings were taken, and it was foundthat the Amistad was one-half milefrom shore when she was seized; andas all waters below the line of low-water mark on the seacoast arecalled high seas, it was decided thatCinque and his men were taken onthe high seas and that, New Londonbeing the first port of entry, to whichthey were taken, Connecticut hadrightful jurisdiction. The captives were taken before theFederal court for the District of Con-necticut atNew London,for preliminaryexaminati o nand trial.Strangely, thejudge was noother than thatAndrew T.Judson, who THE CAPTIVES WERE KAL

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