The primary source under analysis was a libel to the district court of the United States in and for the district of Connecticut. A libel is a written claim presented by a plaintiff in an action at admiralty law, and this particular libel was written by Thomas R. Gedney who was the Lieutenant Commander of the U.S. Naval Brig entitled the Washington. The libel was written following the confiscation of the Spanish slave schooner, …showed first 75 words of 1380 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1380 total…unfathomable to believe that these men deserve some rights and recognition for what they had been through and what they had accomplished. It is not to say however, that Pedro Montes, Jose Ruiz (the two Spaniards) and Thomas Gedney are to blame though. This was the world they grew up in and the concept of subordinate men, superior races and the institution of slavery was ingrained in theirs as well as millions of others heads.