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CONTEMPORARY NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
The whole of
the particulars concerning the piracy, mutiny, and murders on board the
Spanish schooner Amistad (New Bedford Mercury, Sept. 6, 1839)
The Abolitionists
at
the North making great efforts in favor of the Amistad Negroes (Fayetteville
Observer NC, Sept. 18, 1839)
New Haven obituary
(The Liberator, Sept. 20, 1839, 150)
The captured Africans
of the Amistad (N.Y. Morning Herald, Oct. 4, 1839)
Another
Captured African Dead (Philadelphia North American, Nov. 2,
1839)
Africans
of the Amistad shovelling snow (Philadelphia Pennsylvania
Inquirer and Daily Courier, Dec. 28, 1839)
Kab-ba
obituary (Philadelphia North American and Daily Advertiser,
Jan. 4, 1840)
Monies Received
for the Amistad Captives (The Emancipator, March 26, 1840, p.
191)
Amistad Captives
(Norwich Aurora CT, Sept. 2, 1840)
Sale of the Amistad
(Boston Courier, Oct. 26, 1840)
Sale of the
Amistad (Milwaukee Sentinel, Nov. 10, 1840)
Letter of John Quincy Adams to
Roger Bladwin, March 9, 1841
Trial of the Amistad
captives (The Emancipator, March 11, 1841, p. 282)
The Case of the Amistad.
Supreme Court of the United States. January Term 1841 (Boston Courier,
March 22, 1841)
The Amistad
Negroes have been discharged from the prison in New Haven (Cleveland
Daily Herald, March 29, 1841)
Antonio, slave of Captain
Ferrer (New York Spectator, March 31, 1841)
The
Amistad Africans (Philadelphia Pennsylvania Inquirer and Daily Courier,
May 29, 1841)
Departure of the Amistad
Africans (New York Spectator, Dec. 1, 1841)
The
Amistad Africans sailed from New York (Vermont Watchman and State
Journal, Dec. 6, 1841)
The
Amistad Africans (Philadelphia Pennsylvania Inquirer and National
Gazette, April 13, 1842)
The Amistad Negroes
(New York Herald, Sept. 6, 1842)
The
Case of the Amistad (The Emancipator and Free Soil Press, Oct.
25, 1848)
JOURNAL ARTICLES
The Amistad Claims: Inconsistencies
of Policy. Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 3 (Sep.,
1933), pp. 386-412
Black Mutiny on the Amistad.
The Massachusetts Review, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Summer, 1969), pp. 493-532
Historical Memory and a New
National Consciousness: The Amistad Revolt Revisited in Sierra Leone.
The Massachusetts Review, Spring, 1997, pp. 63-83
Federal Historical Records
on the Amistad Case. The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education,
No. 18 (Winter, 1997-1998), pp. 124-125
Review: Dreamworking
Amistad: Representing Slavery, Revolt, and Freedom in America, 1839 and
1997. The New England Quarterly, Mar., 1998, pp. 127-133
Virgil's Aeneid and John
Quincy Adams's Speech on Behalf of the Amistad Africans. The New
England Quarterly, Vol. 71, No. 3 (Sep., 1998), pp. 473-477
Amistad: A True Story of Freedom.
The Journal of American History, Vol. 86, No. 1 (Jun., 1999), pp.
170-173
Cinque of the Amistad a Slave
Trader? Perpetuating a Myth. The Journal of American History,
Vol. 87, No. 3 (Dec., 2000), pp. 923-939
Amistad America
Amistad
film censored in Jamaica
Thousands
crowd Mystic Seaport to watch launch of Amistad replica