View Document Frames
New York Journal of Commerce, November 5, 1839, p.2.
For the Journal of Commerce.
Dr. Madden, H. B. M. Superintendant of Liberated Africans at the Havana, has just
arrived in this city on his way to England. He will remain here and attend the trial
before the District Court at Hartford on the 19th instant. It is not necessary at
present to go into particulars, but Dr. Madden states that the negroes brought here
in the Amistad were Bozal negroes; (that is, recently imported;) that they were purchased
by Montez and Ruiz at the Baracoon or public receptacle and slave market for Bozal
negroes; that Mr. Ruiz bought on account of his uncle, Saturnino Carrias, a merchant
of Puerto Principe, and that they were bought, not for any property of his, but
for sale at that place, that the negroes belonged to Peter Martinez, and had
recently been landed from one of his slavers, &c. &c. &c.
