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Comparison Chart
Who? |
Africans |
Gedney |
Van Buren |
The Spanish Government |
Abolitionists |
Spanish Planters |
What role did they play in the trial? |
(defendants) |
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(financial & moral support for Africans) |
. |
What was their motivation? |
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(economic gain) |
(political gain) |
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What were their arguments? |
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(property rights) |
What was the basis for their arguments? |
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(Pinckney's Treaty) |
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