Free Slaves, Freetown, and the Sierra Leonean Civil War by Joseph Kaifala

Free Slaves, Freetown, and the Sierra Leonean Civil War by Joseph Kaifala

Author:Joseph Kaifala
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US, New York


Before the oracle of the Amistad defense concluded his indictment of the government on behalf of Pieh and his compatriots, he wished to call the attention of the justices to their inevitable mortality. His two-day oral argument had been interrupted by the sudden death of Justice Philip Barbour of Virginia, and he wanted to pay his respect to the late justice by reminding the other justices that someday, they too, would stand in judgment at the “bar of eternal justice,” and whatever justice they meted in their earthly jurisdiction will be measured unto them. Finally, surrendering to his own necessary end, which was nearer as he had aged considerably, he said:In taking, then, my final leave of this Bar, and of this Honorable Court, I can only ejaculate a fervent petition to Heaven, that every member of it may go to his final account with as little of earthly frailty to answer for as those illustrious dead, and that you may, every one, after the close of a long and virtuous career in this world, be received at the portals of the next with the approving sentence—“Well done, good and faithful servant; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.” 58



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