Kale
text and image from Barber, A
History of the Amistad Captives, (Barber, Hitchcock and Stafford, 1840):
19. KA-LE (bone) 5 ft. 4 in., small
head and large under lip, young and pleasant. His parents living; has two sisters.
He was taken while going to a town to buy rice. He was two months in traveling to
Lomboko.
Documents: Kale wrote one of the most powerful documents in the Exploring Amistad Library, a letter to John Quincy Adams on the eve of the Supreme Court trial.
