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32 - Interpreting Gold Coast Supreme Court Records, SCT 5/4/19 Regina (Queen) vs. Quamina Eddoo

from Part Six - Legal Records

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2013

By
Trevor Getz
Edited by
Alice Bellagamba ,
Sandra E. Greene  and
Martin A. Klein
Alice Bellagamba
Affiliation:
University of Milan-Bicocca
Sandra E. Greene
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
Martin A. Klein
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Summary

This chapter discusses the framework for understanding a particularly moving document: the testimony of Abina Mansah in the case of Regina vs. Quamina Eddoo. The particulars of the case appear to have been written down by the magistrate, William Melton, in the Judicial Assessor's Record Book as testimony was being given. This record book was subsequently filed away, to enter the archives as file number Supreme Court Records (SCT) 5/4/19. The interpreter in Regina vs. Quamina Eddoo, James Davis, was a well-educated African of mixed parentage and a member of an important merchant family in the region, and might have been expected to act in a similar manner. Unlike the witnesses who accused them of enslavement, the defendants were generally somewhat familiar with court procedures or were able to employ trained lawyers like James Hutton Brew, who represented the defendant Quamina Eddoo and his sister Eccoah in this court case.

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slave tradeGold CoastKwadwoWest AfricaEuropean policiesfreedomAfrican institutionsEuropean institutions
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African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade , pp. 360 - 377
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2013

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