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A [Top]
Alexander, Eleanor. "A Portrait of Cinque," Connecticut Historical Society
Bulletin, vol. 49, no. 1 (Winter 1984), 30-51 [Principally about the Jocelyn
portrait, but with general coverage of the Amistad incident and the public
sensation it created]
Amistad Committee. The AmistadRevolt: Struggle for Freedom.
New Haven: Amistad Committee, 1993.
B [Top]
Barber, John W. A History of the Amistad Captives: Being a Circumstantial Account of the Capture of the Spanish Schooner Amistad, by the Africans on Board; Their Voyage, and Capture Near Long Island, New York: With Biographical Sketches of Each of the Surviving Africans. Also, an Account of the Trials Had on Their Case, Before the District and Circuit Courts of the United States, for the District of Connecticut. New Haven: E.L. & J.W. Barber, 1840.
Bergard, Laird W., Feiglesias Garcia, and Maria del Carmen Barcia, The Cuban Slave Market, 1790-1880 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Blassingame, John W. The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Blassingame, John W., ed. Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews and Autobiographies. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977.
Boles, John B. Black Southerners, 1619-1869. Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 1983.
Bolster, Jeffrey W. "'To Feel Like a Man': Black Seamen in the Northern States, 1800-1860." The Journal of American History 76:4: (March 1990): 1173-99.
Busch, Briton. "Whaling Will Never Do for Me": The American Whaleman in the Nineteenth Century. Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 1994. [pp. 32-50, 199-204.]
C [Top]
Cable, Mary. Black Odyssey: The Case of the Slave Ship Amistad. New
York: Viking Press, 1971.
Calabretta, Fred. "The Picture of Antoine De Sant: Focusing on New London's Black Maritime History." The Log of Mystic Seaport 44:4 (Spring 1993): 93-5.
Canright, Stephen. "The Black Man and the Sea." South Street Reporter 7:4 (Winter 1973-4): 5-10.
Case, H.G. "A Claim for the Slaveship Amistad ." Long Island Forum 35:11 (November 1972): 238-42.
Cash, Floris. "African American Whalers: Images and Reality." Long Island Historical Journal 2:1 (Fall 1989): 41-52.
Chapelle, Howard I. The Baltimore Clipper: Its Origin and Development. New York: Bonanza Books, 1930- . [pp. 3, 107-11, 116-7.]
Clement, Michael R. "I Saw Three Ships...." Sea History
4 (July 1976): 14-6.
Cohn, Michael, and Platzer, Michael. Black Men of the Sea. New York:
Dodd, Mead, 1978.
Conrad, Robert Edgar. World of Sorrow: The African Slave Trade to Brazil. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. [pp. 144-53.] Cook, Fred J. "The Slave Ship Rebellion." American Heritage 8:2 (February 1957): 61-106.
Corwin, Arthur F.Spain and the Abolition of Slavery in Cuba, 1817-1866 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1967).
Coughtry, Jay.The Notorious Triangle: Rhode Island and the African Slave Trade, 1700-1807. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981.
Curtin, Philip D. The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1981. [pp. 72-4.]
D [Top]
Donnan, Elizabeth, gen. ed. Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave
Trade to America, 4 vols. New York: Octagon Books, 1965. [Vol. 4: "Voyage
of Joseph Hawkins, 1793-1795." pp. 494-500. Vol. 3: New England and the Middle
Colonies (contains 303 documents relating to the New England slave trade).]
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, edited by Houston Baker. New York: Viking Penguin, 1982.
Dye, Ira. "Early American Merchant Seafarers." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 120:5 (October 1976): 348-53.
E [Top]
Eason, Henry. Journal, 1858-September 1860, kept by Henry Eason, a seaman aboard
U.S. sloop of war Marion ...during an anti-slavery cruise off the African
Coast. 1858-1860.
Eltis, David."The Export of Slaves from Africa, 1821-43," Journal of Economic History v. 37 no. 2 (1977), 409-433
Eltis, David, and Walving, James. The Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Origins and Effects in Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1981.
Evans, Karyl K., producer and director. The Amistad Revolt: 'All We Want is Make Us Free.' Copyright 1995, The Amistad Committee, Inc., New Haven, CT 06511. [Video; a teacher's guide comes with the movie.]
F [Top]
Farr, James Barker. Black Odyssey: The Seafaring Traditions of Afro-Americans.
New York: Peter Lang, 1991.
Fisher, Miles M. Negro Slave Songs in the United States. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Fogel, Robert William. Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery. New York: Norton, 1989.
Forbes, Lieutenant. Six Months' Service in the African Blockade, from April to October, 1848, in Command of H.M.S. Bonetta (London, 1849) [Forbes was stationed in the Gallinas/Sherbro/Cape Mount region below Sierra Leone. His account includes detailed descriptions of the slave factories along this coastline.]
Fraginals, Manuel Moreno (Cedric Belfrage, trans.),The Sugarmill: The Socioeconomic Complex of Sugar in Cuba, 1760-1860 (New York, 1976). (Appearing in Cuba as El ingenio: Complejo economia del azucar (3 vols., Havana, 1978).
Franklin, John Hope. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans. 6th ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 1988.
Fredrickson, George. The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American
Character and Destiny, 1817-1914 (New York: Harper and Row, 1971) Gates,
Henry Louis, Jr. The Classic Slave Narratives. New York: Mentor, 1987.
[Includes The Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789), The History of Mary
Prince (1831), Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
(1845) and Jacob, Harriet, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Mind (1861).]
Fyfe, Christopher. A History of Sierra Leone (London: Oxford University
Press, 1962) [Somewhat dated, adopting a largely colonial, Anglo-centric perspective
(Fyfe worked within the imperial administration). But impressively detailed, and
authoritative]
G [Top]
Gauthier, Anita M. "The Black Whalers of Nantucket." The Lookout
75:2 (August 1983): 24-5.
Genovese, Eugene. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. New York: Pantheon Books, 1974.
Gillmer, Thomas. The Pride of Baltimore: The Story of the Baltimore Clipper,
1800-1990. Camden: International Marine, 1992, pp. 31, 84-90, 112.
Grant, William. "Filmmaker
and Boat Builders Hew Lessons in Human Rights", December 19, 1997, Christian
Science Monitor.
H [Top]
Hall, Robert L., and Harvey, Michael M., eds. Making a Living: The Work Experience
of African Americans in New England. Boston: New England Foundation for
the Humanities, 1995.
Harrod, Frederick S. "Jim Crow in the Navy (1798-1941)." U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings pp. 47-53. September 1979.
Hedge, John. The Browns of Providence Plantation: The Colonial Years. Providence: Brown University Press, 1968. [See ch. 4, "That Unrighteous Trade." pp. 70-85.]
Horton, James, and Horton, Lois, ed. A History of the African People. New York: Smithmark, 1995.
Horton, James Oliver. Free People of Color: Inside the African Community. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993. [Study of the free black community in antebellum Boston.]
Howard, Warren S. American Slavers and the Federal Law, 1837-1862 Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963[a lively account of the American illegal slave trade and the U.S. Navy's sisyphean efforts to shut it down.]
Howard, Warren S. American Slaves and the Federal Law: 1837-1862. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963. [pp. 1-27.]
Hoyt, Edwin Palmer [Christopher Martin]. The Amistad Affair. London, New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1970.
J [Top]
Jakobsson, Stiv.Am I Not a Man and a Brother? British Missions and the Abolition
of the Slave Trade and Slavery in West Africa and the West Indies, 1786-1838
(Lund, 1972) [a detailed examination of Sierra Leone as a missionary project]
Jenkins, William S. Pro-Slavery Thought in the Old South (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1935)
Johnson, Clifton H. Amistad II: Afro-American Art , edited by David
C. Driskell. Nashville: Fisk University and the United Church Board for Homeland
Ministries, 1975. ["The Amistad Incident" pp. 15-35.]
Jones, Adam From Slaves to Palm Kernels: A History of the Galinhas Country (West
Africa), 1730-1890 (Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1983) [An excellent account of
the emergence of an economy and society built around the slave trade in Mendeland
and on the coast, and their transition to palm kernel export . Includes specific
ethnographic analysis of the Amistad Africans. Jones is a British academic
who lived for several years in Sierra Leone.]
Jones, Adam and Marion Johnson, "Slaves from the Windward Coast," Journal of African History vol. 22, 159-178.
Jones, Howard. "Mutiny on the Amistad : 'All We Want is Make Us Free.'" In The Amistad Incident: Four Perspectives. Occasional Papers of the Connecticut Humanities Council, no. 10, Wesleyan University. Middletown, CT: Connecticut Humanities Council, 1992. [Full-length account in Jones, Howard, Mutiny on the Amistad, q.v. .]
Jones, Howard. Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987; revised ed. 1997. [The best and most detailed academic monograph on the Amistad Revolt and its aftermath in the U.S. Particularly strong on the legal, constitutional and political dimensions of the story.]
K [Top]
Kaplan, Sidney. "Black Mutiny on the Amistad. " Massachusetts
Review (Summer 1969): 493-532.
Kaplan, Sidney. "Lewis Temple and the Hunting of the Whale." New England Quarterly 26 (1 March 1953): 78-88.
Katz, Bernard, ed. The Social Implications of Early Negro Music in the United States. New York: Aeno Press, 1969. [pp. 111-3, 120-1.]
Kingery, Sheryl. "Interpreting a Time of Slavery." The Docent Educator 2:3 (Spring 1993): 8-9.
Klein, Herbert S. African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986).
Klein, Herbert S. The Middle Passage: Comparative Studies in the Atlantic Slave Trade. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978.
Knight, Francis W. Slave Society in Cuba during the Nineteenth Century (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1970).
Kohn, Bernice. The Amistad Mutiny. New York: McCall Publishing Co., 1971. [For young people.]
Kolchin, Peter. American Slavery: 1619-1877. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993.
Kromer, Helen. The Amistad Revolt 1839: The Slave Uprising aboard the Spanish Schooner .
L [Top]
Lerner, Gerda, ed. Black Women in White America: A Documentary History. New
York: Vintage, 1973.
Litwack, Leo. North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.
Litwack, Leon F. North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961).
M [Top]
Mannix, Daniel.Black Cargoes: A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1518-1865
New York: Viking Press, 1962.
Mannix, Daniel, with Cowley, Malcolm. Black Cargoes. New York: Viking Press, 1971. Marr, Warren. "The Amistad Incident." Sea History 71 (Autumn 1994): 20-1.
Marr, Warren, II. "Out of Bondage: From the Annals of the American Missionary Association, The Story of the Heroic Slave Mutiny Aboard the Amistad ." United Church Herald 7 (1 March 1964).
Martin, Bert Edmon. All We Want Is Make Us Free: La Amistad and the Reform Abolitionists. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1986.
Martinez-Fernandez, Luis. Torn between Empires: Economy, Society, and Patterns of Political Thought in the Hispanic Caribbean, 1840-1878 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994).
May, Robert. The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854-61 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989)
McCardell, John.The Idea of a Southern Nation: Southern Nationalists and Southern Nationalism, 1830-1860) (New York: Norton, 1979)
McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Montesinos Sale, Maggie.The Slumbering Volcano: American Slave Ship Revolts and the Production of Rebellious Masculinity Durham NC: Duke University Press, 1997. [A literary and cultural analysis of the rhetoric that surrounded and shaped American perceptions of the Amistad Revolt (along with the Creole Revolt), including the ways in which Americans struggled to fit these incidents into prevalent white antebellum notions of race, slavery and the republic.]
Morgan, Jennifer. Transatlantic Slavery: Against Human Dignity , edited by Anthony Tibbles. Liverpool: Merseyside Maritime Museum, 1994. "Women in Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade."
Morison, Samuel E. Maritime History of Massachusetts: 1783-1860. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1921.
Morison, Samuel E. The Oxford History of the American People. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965.
Murray, David R.Odious Commerce: Britain, Spain and the Abolition of the Cuban Slave Trade (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980).
N [Top]
Nash, Gary B. Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community,
1720-1810. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988.
New Haven Colony Historical Society. Journal of the New Haven Colony Historical Society 36:2 (Spring 1990). [Includes: Johnson, Clifton H., "The Amistad Case and its Consequences in U.S. History"; Motley, Constance Baker, "The Legal Aspects of the Amistad Case"; Barber, John Warner, "A History of the Amistad Captives" (1840 ed. reproduced in facsimile).]
Niles, Mrs. Blair. East by Day. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1941.
Niven, John.Martin Van Buren: The Romantic Age of American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983).
O [Top]
Owens, William A. Slave Mutiny: The Revolt on the Schooner Amistad.
(also, Black Mutiny: The Revolt on the Schooner Amistad. New York: J.
Day, 1953.
P [Top]
Perez, Luis , Jr., Cuba and the United States: Ties of Singular Intimacy
(Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990).
Perry, Lewis, and Fellman, Michael, eds. Antislavery Reconsidered: New Perspectives on the Abolitionists. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979. [See "'Am I not a woman and a Sister?' Abolitionist Beginnings of Nineteenth-Century Feminism." pp. 263-5.]
Piersen, William D. Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth Century New England. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988. [pp. 14-15, 18, 25-36, 117-27.]
Platzer, Michael. "The Black Heritage in Seafaring: Where It's to Be Found Today." Sea History 10 (Spring 1978): 26-7.
Putney, Martha S. Black Sailors: Afro-American Merchant Seamen and Whalemen Prior to the Civil War . Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies, no. 103. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1987.
Q [Top]
Quarles, Benjamin. Black Abolitionists. Da Capo, 1991.
R [Top]
Rawick, George P. The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography. Westport:
Greenwood Publishing Company, 1972. [Introduction to an 18-volume set of WPA-sponsored
interviews with former slaves; pp. 14-29.]
Rawley, James A. The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History. New York: Norton, 1983. [pp. 17-9, 336-9.]
Reilly, Kevin S. "Slavers in Disguise: American Whaling and the African Slave Trade, 1845-1862." American Neptune 53:3 (Summer 1993): 177-89.
Remini, Robert. The Jacksonian Era. Arlington Heights: Harlan Davidson, 1989. [pp. 53-69.]
Richards, Leonard. Antislavery Reconsidered: New Perspectives on the Abolitionists. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979. ["The Jacksonians and Slavery." pp. 99-118.]
Richards, Leonard. Gentlemen of Property and Standing: Anti-Abolition Mobs in Jacksonian America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. ["A Generation of Anti-Abolitionist Violence." pp. 34-40, 149.]
Richards, Leonard L.'Gentlemen of Property and Standing': Anti-Abolition Mobs in Jacksonian America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1970)
Richards, Leonard L. The Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adams (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986)
Robinson, Michael Eugene. "The Amistad Case: Legal, Moral and Political Implications of an Abolitionist Cause." [Unpublished Master's thesis, History Department, University of New Orleans, 1983.]
Roorda, Eric "Cuba, America, and the Sea: Part I, 'The Strong Tap-Root of Interest'," The Log of Mystic Seaport , Spring 1997, pp. 74-82
Roorda, Eric. "Our Position is a Most Commanding One." The Log of Mystic Seaport 45:3 (Winter 1993): 66-71. Mystic, CT.
Rundle, James U. ed., The Amistad Incident: Four Perspectives (Connecticut Humanities Council, 1992) Sawyer, Kate, gen. ed. History on the Go . Workbook series. No. 7: Free Men: The Amistad Revolt and the American Anti-slavery Movement. The Connecticut Historical Society Education Department, 1990 (?). [Teacher's guide.]
S [Top]
Scherr, Suzanne, ed. Amistad Sourcebook. Chicago: Lyric Opera of Chicago,
1997. [Teacher's guide to the opera Amistad .]
Scott, Julius S. Jack Tar in History: Essays in the History of Maritime Life and Labour , edited by Colin Howell and Richard J. Twombly. Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, 1991. ["Afro-American Sailors and the International Communications Network: The Case of Newport Bowers." pp. 37-52.]
Showalter, Lucille. "New Londoners Free a Slave," The Day , 23 February 1991, New London, CT.
Smith, Gaddis. Ships, Seafaring and Society: Essays in Maritime History, edited by Timothy Runyon. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1987. ["Black Seamen and the Federal Courts, 1789-1860." pp. 321-37.]
Smith, Gaddis. "The Amistad in a Global Maritime Context." In The Amistad Incident: Four Perspectives . Occasional Papers of the Connecticut Humanities Council, no. 10, Wesleyan University. Middletown, CT: Connecticut Humanities Council, 1992.
Smith, Venture. Five Black Lives , edited by Arna Bontemps. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1971. ["A Narration of the Life and Adventures of Venture Smith." pp. 4-25.]
Southern, Eileen. The Music of Black Americans: A History. New York: Norton, 1967. [pp. 130-1.]
Sterne, Emma Gelders. The Long Black Schooner: The Voyage of the Amistad. New York: Aladdin Books, 1953. [For children.]
Strother, Horatio T. The Underground Railroad in Connecticut. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1962. [pp. 107-8, 119-20, 128-32.]
Sundquist, Eric. To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993).
T [Top]
Thomas, Hugh.The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997). [A monumental block of scholarship, but also
a great read, working through the vast history by way of human stories. Along with
Mannix, one of the definitive overviews of the subject.]
Thomas, Lamont D. "Paul Cuffe: Against the Odds in Vienna, Maryland." The Log of Mystic Seaport 45:4 (Spring 1994): 103-8, 128. Mystic, CT:
Thomas, Lamont D. Rise to Be a People: A Biography of Paul Cuffe. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986.
Trecker, Janice Law. Preachers, Rebels, and Traders. Chester, CT: Pequot Press, 1975. [pp. 28-45.]
Trivelli, Marifrances. "'I Knew a Ship from Stem to Stern': The Maritime World of Frederick Douglass." The Log of Mystic Seaport 46:4 (Spring 1995): 98-108, 128. Mystic, CT.
Turnbull, David. Travels in the West: Cuba, with Notes of Porto Rico and the Slave Trade (London, 1840)
U [Top]
Unknown."The Saga of the Amistad, " New Haven Register ,
17 September 1989, special issue. Unknown.Whalemen's Shipping List ,
New Bedford, 30 November 1847, 27 August 1861, 24 June 1862. [Accounts of whaling
ships engaged in or fitting out for the slave trade.]
V [Top]
Valuska, David L. The African American in the Union Navy: 1861-1865. New
York: Garland Publishing Company, 1993. [pp. 3-14.]
W [Top]
Walters, Ronald G. The Anti-Slavery Appeal: American Abolitionism after 1830.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1976.
Weinstein, Allen, et al., eds. American Negro Slavery: A Modern Reader . 3d ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
White, David O. Connecticut's Black Soldiers: 1775-1783. Chester, CT: Pequot Press, 1973.
Winch, Julie. "James Forten, Sailmaker." The Log of Mystic Seaport 47:3 (Winter 1995): 66-76. Mystic, CT.
Work Projects Administration. Ship Registers and Enrollments of Newport, RI, 1790-1939. Providence: National Archives Project, 1938-41. [Entry for schooner Ion , formerly Amistad . Contains notes on owners, dimensions, sale of vessel.]
Work Projects Administration. Unpublished transcripts of vessel registers and enrollments of New London, Connecticut, from 1789-1939. [Entry for schooner Ian , formerly Amistad . Notes on owners, dimensions, etc.]
Wright, Donald R. African Americans in the Early Republic, 1789-1831. Arlington Heights: Harlan Davidson, 1993.
Wyatt-Brown, Bertram Lewis Tappan and the Evangelical War Against Slavery (Cleveland: Case Western Reserve University Press, 1969).
Z [Top]
Zeinert, Karen. The Amistad Slave Revolt. North Haven,
CT: Linnet Books, 1997.
