All 13 Uses of
establish
in
Amistad
- Baldwin's reputation as a savvy and intelligent defense attorney was well established.
Chpt 2.7 (definition 1) *established = set (firmly existing)
- Along with having to fight the resources of Holabird, Hungerford, Isham, and the Van Buren administration, they were facing the prospects of defending a politically charged case that was devoid of any established legal precedents which could work in their favor.†
Chpt 2.7 (definition 1)
- General Isham, you will kindly keep your mind and your words to the established facts.
Chpt 2.7 (definition 2) *established = known or accepted
- He was eager to make an impression on his superiors and establish himself with the American government as someone who was not to be trifled with.†
Chpt 2.8 (definition 1)
- All we were trying to establish was that these men had learned some English during their very short stay in our country.†
Chpt 2.9 (definition 1)
- Ellsworth went into extensive questioning of both Green and Fordham, trying to establish that they had come across the Amistad first.
Chpt 2.9 (definition 2)establish = show
- …the appeal opened, Senator John C. Calhoun, a Whig from South Carolina, proposed a resolution that in part read: If a ship should be forced by stress of weather or other cause into a port, she and her cargo, and persons on board, with their property, will be accorded all the rights belonging to their personal relations as established by the laws of the state to which they belong, and would be placed under protection of the laws of nations which are extended under such circumstances.
Chpt 2.10 (definition 1)established = required (set in place)
- Not 'everyone on the committee agreed with Tappan's goals for the people of Africa, but most believed in the basic principles he was proposing, and all agreed that "true" missions must be established to check the fraudulent work being done by the American Missionary Society.
Chpt 2.12 (definition 1)established = created
- The night before the voyage, Tappan learned from a British Navy captain that the task of establishing the mission or even returning the Amistads back to their native land had become decidedly more difficult.†
Chpt 2.12 (definition 1)
- The Mende Mission was established in 1842 by William Raymond after James Steele and Henry Wilson decided to return to America.
Chpt Epil. (definition 1)established = founded (started)
- The American Missionary Association (formerly the Amistad Committee) not only established the Mo Tappan Mission and others in Sierra Leone, it also went on to found a number of colleges for black Americans in the United States.†
Chpt Epil. (definition 1)
- Lewis Tappan continued pursuing his cause of abolitionism and after the U.S. Civil War worked to establish civil rights for blacks.†
Chpt Epil. (definition 1)
- He also established New York's first mercantile agency and presided over it until just before his death at the age of eighty-five in 1873.†
Chpt Epil. (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (establish as in: establish a positive tone) create, start, or set in [a] place
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(2) (establish as in: establish that there is a need) show or determine (cause to be recognized or figure out)