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Titles: Captured Africans of the Amistad
Description: Describes the Amistad Africans in the Hartford prison. Includes a description of Professor Pierce making a phrenological reading of Cinque, translations of Cinque's speech, and Pierce's list of Mandingo vocabulary.
Primary Source Publisher: New York Morning Herald
Primary Source Publication Date: 10/4/1839
Subject Keywords: Amistad African - Cinque
Other Keyword - Phrenology
Other Person - Tappan, Lewis
Place - Hartford, Connecticut
Person - Amistad Africans
Other Person - Pierce, Professor
Amistad African - Grabeau
Other Keyword - Diplomacy
Other Keyword - Race
Other Keyword - Abolition
Courtesy of: microfilm, Harvard University



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