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
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electronic resource - Edition: Electronic ed.
- Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999.
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| General Note: | Text scanned (OCR) by Fiona Mills. Images scanned by Fiona Mills. Text encoded by Bethany Ronnberg and Natalia Smith. This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection North American slave narratives. |
| Original Version Note: | Transcribed from: 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 / compiled from authentic sources by John W. Barber, Mem. of the Connecticut Hist. Soc. New Haven, CT : published by E.L. & J.W. Barber ; Hitchcock & Stafford, printers, 1840. 32 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm. |
| Funding Information Note: | Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities supported the electronic publication of this title. |
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| Subject: | Cinque Amistad (Schooner) Antislavery movements United States Slave rebellions United States Slave trade History 19th century Slavery United States History Trials (Mutiny) United States |
| Genre: | Slave narratives. |
