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Roger Baldwin's Role In Slavery

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Roger Sherman Baldwin played an important role in slavery in the America we know today. Roger played a minor role in slavery itself, but in the matter of the amistad Roger played a major role. Roger was the lawyer who against better judgement decided to be Cinque’s attorney. Roger had a more regal and prestigious background then the movie would have us believe, as it turns out Roger Sherman Baldwin was the grandson of Roger Sherman, (a founding father, and only person to sign all four great state papers.) this effectively gave Roger a large amount of influence in courtrooms and other government facilities. This greatly affected the court case because it gave all his arguments a lot more strength then they should have had. This combined with
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