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wrest
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- They exercised their rights to wrest themselves from false imprisonment and servitude.†
Chpt 2.9 *
- In the second part, however, I rule that I will not order extradition to Cuba of the negroes participating in the mutiny, since, as stated, these men were trying to wrest themselves from illegal bondage and thus in the eyes of this court, acting in self-defense.†
Chpt 2.9
- Gilpin went on to question much of the "supposed evidence" brought forth by the defense that cast aspersions on whether the blacks were slaves or not and hence acting as men attempting to wrest themselves from unlawful imprisonment.†
Chpt 2.11
- This court rules that the blacks on board the Amistad, save for the slave boy Antonio, were acting as free-born men, who were attempting to wrest their liberty from false imprisonment.†
Chpt 2.11
Definitions:
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(1)
(wrest) obtain with difficult effort or force
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)