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Amistad Case
Amistad Case
Defined in 1 dictionary —
Ballentine's (1916)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine
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1916
A United States case in 1839 wherein negroes who had been kidnaped and enslaved in Africa, mutinied and were held free and not pirates. See 2 L. Ed. (IT. S.) 826.
