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Your Royal Highness.
:19:14
Something's happened.
:19:22
Martin Van Buren,
8th President of the United States
:19:25
The ambassador to Spain,
Senor Caldero.
:19:27
- What?
- Senor Calderon.
:19:29
Yes, all right. Not now.
:19:31
- It is a matter of importance, sir.
- God bless you all!
:19:41
I'm trying to drink my brandy
after a very long day.
:19:46
I simply wasn't certain
:19:48
whether this was something you wanted
to take care of personally.
:19:52
Leder, there are what, four million
Negroes in this country?
:19:56
Why on earth should I concern
myself with these forty-four? Hm?
:20:01
Well, there are reasons.
:20:03
I don't care how.
You just take care of it.
:20:09
The ship is Amistad.
:20:12
It's too small to be
a transatlantic slaver.
:20:16
They're plantation slaves, then?
West Indians?
:20:19
Not necessarily.
:20:21
At least they certainly
don't look it.
:20:24
Not from the glimpse I caught of them
on their way to jail.
:20:28
They have these...scars.
:20:30
- Scars?
- Yeah.
:20:47
They were first detained by officers
of a brig off Long Island.
:20:51
They were conveyed to New Haven -
under what authority, I don't know -
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and given over to
the local constabulary.
:20:58
About forty of them,
including four or five children.