The amazing story of Judah P. Benjamin, Q.C.(part 1)(U.S. senator, Confederate spy with agents working in Canada, then British advocate and Canadian constitutional law founder)
From: The Advocate
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Date: 9/1/2003
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Author: Taylor, Martin R.
Judah Phillip Benjamin (1811-84) was everything noted by asterisk below--a "silver-tongued advocate" said to be possessed of "one of the greatest minds of his century" and a one-time slave-owner who fled the ruin of "the lost cause" to become leading counsel in London and appear before the Privy Council in almost every Canadian constitutional case of his time.
The astounding story of Benjamin's life is in no way better illustrated than by the fact that only a decade after his ...
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