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Statement of the Supreme Court to Circuit Court
Statement of the Supreme Court to Circuit Court
March 9, 1841
National Archives and Records Administration,
Records of the Supreme Court of the United States, RG 267
Following its decision, the Supreme Court submitted this
statement to the lower court where the case originated.
The statement indicated that the decision of the circuit court was
in part upheld and in part reversed. The part that was upheld related to the freedom of
the Africans. The part that was reversed related to Judge Andrew T. Judson's application
of the Congressional Act of March 3, 1819. Judson's decision authorized the President to
return the Africans to Africa. Ultimately, the abolitionists arranged for their return in early 1842.
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