Sundry African Slaves v. Madrazo
Supreme Court of the United States
THESE cases were brought before this Court, from the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Georgia, under the following circumstances. The schooner Isabelita, a Spanish vessel, owned by Juan Ma-drazo, a native Spanish subject, domiciliated at Havana, was-despatched by him with a cargo, his own property, in the year -181Z, on a voyage to the -coast of Africa, where she took in a cargo of slaves.
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THESE cases were brought before this Court, from the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Georgia, under the following circumstances. The schooner Isabelita, a Spanish vessel, owned by Juan Ma-drazo, a native Spanish subject, domiciliated at Havana, was-despatched by him with a cargo, his own property, in the year -181Z, on a voyage to the -coast of Africa, where she took in a cargo of slaves. On her return voyage she was captured by a cruiser called the Successor, under the piratical flag of Commodore Aury; the said cruiser being then commanded by one Moore, an American…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Marshall
delivered' the opinion of the Court.-—
Some time-in the year 1817, Juan Madrazo, a Spaniard, residing in. the Island of Cuba, engaged in- the slave trade, fitted out a vessel for the coast of Africa, which p. ocured a cargo of Africans; and on its return, in the autumn df 1817, was captured by. a privateer sail, under the flag of one of the gov - ernments of Spanish Átnerica, and carried into Amelia Island ; where the vessel and cargo were condemned by a tribunal, es-' tablished by Áury, the authority of which has not .heén acknowledged in this-country. The Africans were purchased by. William…
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