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Title
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No. 5. The manner in which Iuries are impannelled. (docket title)
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Place of Origin
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Antigua and Barbuda
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Date
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1830-04-17
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Series Heading
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M547. Antigua. Colored inhabitants.
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Geography
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Antigua
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Subject
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Jurors, Jury duty -- Antigua and Barbuda -- Antigua -- History -- 19th century, Petition of right, Civil rights -- Antigua and Barbadu -- Antigua -- History -- 19th century, Discrimination against racially mixed people, West Indies -- History
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Notes
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"The exclusion of Coloured Persons from serving as Jurors, may be regarded as their most prominent grievance... cherished by the Whites more tenaciously... As a proof that... neither moral nor intellectual unfitness... prevents their enjoyment of these Constitutional Rights, it might not be irrelevant to observe that the more weighty and complicated duties of almost all the Public Offices and Departments in the Island are performed by Colored Men..."Support for The Petition, of the Coloured Inhabitants, of the Island of Antigua., Original digital object name: bei-m547b, This digital resource is provided by the Special Collections department, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, United States.
