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Box 4250.001

 Container

Contains 1 Collection or Record:

William Law Legal Brief, circa 1830

 File — Box: 4250.001, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents A legal brief by Georgia attorney and state agent William Law describing the status of two cases involving seized enslaved persons, circa 1830. One case pertained to Spanish claims surrounding three vessels, the Poletena, the Tentativa, and the Syrena.
Dates: circa 1830
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4250, Wade Hall Collection on Slavery in the United States