"This Practice Against Law": Cuban Slave Trade Cases in the Southern District of New York, 1839-1841

John D Gordan III

ISBN 10: 1616195452 / ISBN 13: 9781616195458

Published by Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: "This Practice Against Law": Cuban Slave Trade Cases in the Southern District of New York, 1839-1841
• Publisher: Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1616195452
• ISBN 13: 9781616195458
• Binding: Book
• Edition: Illustrated.
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 15.24W x 1.27H x 22.86D centimeters 15.24 centimeters width by 1.27 centimeters height by 22.86 centimeters depth
• Weight: 454 grams

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Synopsis

Gordan’s research shines a new light on the legal tale of 19th century American ships covertly intended for the Cuban-African slave trade. “This Practice Against Law” reconstructs the little-known story of the Butterfly and the Catharine, two slave ships from Havana seized by the British Navy off the African coast in 1839. xv, 117 pp. Published by Talbot Publishing, an imprint of the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

About the Author

JOHN D. GORDAN, III, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, clerked for the Honorable Inzer B. Wyatt, U.S. District Judge (S.D.N.Y.), from 1969 to 1971 and served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney (S.D.N.Y.) from 1971 to 1976. He was in private practice in New York City from 1976 to 2011. He is the author of The Fugitive Slave Rescue Trial of Robert Morris: Benjamin Robbins Curtis on the Road to Dred Scott.