What was John Quincy Adams's role in the Amistad case

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Ebon · Answer 1 · 2021-03-02T22:43:25+0000

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The court ruled that no one owned the Africans because they had been illegally enslaved and transported to the New World. ... Abolitionists enlisted former US President John Quincy Adams to represent the Amistad captives' petition for freedom before the Supreme Court.

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