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525:"American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting Criminal Trials which Have Taken Place in the United States, from the Beginning of Our Government to the Present Day : with Notes and Annotations"
211:, 1857) to defend the African Americans accused of treason, noting that since they could not be citizens they could not commit treason. Green and Copeland were found guilty, and executed by hanging on December 16, 1859.
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527:. Thomas Law Books. p. 809–812 – via Google Books.
545:. Houghton, Mifflin. p. 314 – via Google Books.
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426:"George Sennott Obituary"
333:Carlisle v. United States
262:. In 1862, his letter to
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216:United States vs. Gordon
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843:"Sennott, George"
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358:"Sennott, George"
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