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"Fate in Cuba," New York Journal of Commerce, November 30, 1839, p.2
AFRICANS OF THE AMISTAD.--The Editor of the New Haven Record says, he conversed with
Dr. Madden, the English agent for captured Africans in Cuba, when the doctor was
recently at New Haven. "We learned from him," says the Record, "that
these unfortunate persons, if they are returned to Cuba, will every man of them be
put to death. This was understood as a matter of course by every body at Havana;
and the feeling of every one there is that they deserve such a fate. Their act in
boldly rising against their oppressors and striking a blow for freedom is looked
upon as a deed of peculiar atrocity, and as demanding signal punishment. If our laws
and the interests of slavery in this country should require such a sacrifice of the
claims of justice and humanity, we think it would no longer be necessary to prove
that as a nation we have something to do with slavery."
