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Titles: A History of the Amistad Captives

Creator/Author: Barber, John Warner
Other Contributor: Gibbs, Josiah W.; Covey, James; Griswold, Benjamin
Description: An overview of events and issues of Amistad case through selected published accounts and material provided by the compiler, including descriptions and profile sketches of each surviving captive and some details about daily life, values, practices in their West African communities.
Primary Source Publisher: E.L. and J.W. Barber, Hitchcock & Stafford
Primary Source Publication Date: 1/1/1840
Subject Keywords: Amistad African - Amistad Africans
Other Keyword - African Slave Trade
Other Keyword - Cuban Slave Trade
Other Keyword - Barracoon
Other Keyword - Capture
Other Keyword - Language
Amistad African - Bozal
Other Keyword - Salvage
Vessel - Amistad
Court Related - Law
Other Keyword - Politics
Place - Africa
Other Keyword - Race
Other Keyword - Revolt
Other Keyword - Abolition
Courtesy of: Connecticut Historical Society and New Haven Colony Historical Society



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