[DOC] [TLE] Game Show NewsNet [PAR] Jun 16, 2006 ... He risks $3000 on this: Josiah Gibbs got help translating for the accused men of 
this ship from James Covey, an African sailor, once a slave. [DOC] [TLE] James Covey - Wikipedia [PAR] James Covey (n Kai Nyangua; c. 1819  ?) was the interpreter used in the 
Amistad slave ship case (40 U.S. (15 Pet.) 518 (1841)) who spoke Mende and 
possibly other African languages. Covey was born in Africa about 1819. At twelve 
years of age, he was kidnapped from his Sierra Leone village by an unknown 
black man. ... Yale professor Josiah Gibbs, seeking anyone who spoke the 
Mende... [DOC] [TLE] A Different Look at the Amistad Trial: The Teenager Who Helped ... [PAR] James Benajmin Covey, a former slave, was only 14 years old when asked to ... 
Gibbs desperately needed an interpreter and this young man, who had been ... 
On July 2, 1839, the Africans seized the schooner Amistad from Portuguese ... 
Americans captured the ship on Long Island and took it to New London, 
Connecticut. [DOC] [TLE] James Covey [PAR] James Covey was "stolen by a black man" from his Sierra Leone village at age ... 
to the notorious slave factory of Lomboko, where he was placed on a slave ship 
... Covey later decided to enlist as a sailor on a British man-of-war, the Buzzard. ... 
harbor when Yale professor Josiah Gibbs was walking the waterfront looking for
... [DOC] [TLE] "I Began To Realize That I Had Some Friends:" Hardship ... [PAR] By Evan Turiano in African American Studies and 19th Century (History). ... 
Chapter Three examines the case of the slave ship Amistad. ..... 29 Once, 
however, Crandall's opponents came to realize that she would not be deterred by 
.... 52 When James Lindsay Smith, and enslaved man from Virginia, reached the 
safe harbor... [DOC] [TLE] Historic Context - Reel American History - Films - List [PAR] Men, women, and children were packed into the slave ship Tecora in unruly 
inhumane ... Once the mutiny was complete, the Africans demanded to be 
returned home, but ... Professor Josiah Gibbs of Yale College, an abolitionist and 
linguistics ... for an African sailor who might be able to translate their tales into 
English. [DOC] [TLE] 'I'd rather die than be a white man's slave' - the story of the Amistad ... [PAR] Oct 29, 2013 ... The Amistad Rebellion tells the story of a group of slaves who rose up. ... The 
Africans, unable to sail the ship, were captured by the US and put on trial. ... The 
children taught the linguist Josiah Gibbs to count from one to ten in their ... 
Charles Pratt and James Covey were Mende sailors on a British warship,... [DOC] [TLE] Final Essay towards the Fulfillment of the Master in ... - Repositori UJI [PAR] on August 26th, 1839, while trading for basic goods, a US navy ship off the coast 
... Key Words: The Amistad Case, slavery, court interpreters, James Covey, 
Charles Pratt,. John Ferry, Mendi, Africans, interpreters, Christian Abolitionists, 
code of ... Spaniards, ideology, theology, colonialism, ministers, lawyers, Josiah 
Gibbs,. [DOC] [TLE] The Amistad - Abdo Digital [PAR] Slave fortresses such as this one in Ghana dot the coast of West Africa. Sl ff t ... 
slave ships for the Middle Passage, the voyage to the .... the sailor steering the 
ship. .... When Cinqu saw the men in uniforms going ..... men didJames Covey 
and Charles ... With help from translators, the Amistad lawyers were able to 
confirm. [DOC] [TLE] Amistad ~ 1839 - Fold3 [PAR] October 1839: Professor Josiah Gibbs locates interperter, James Covey, and the 
... 1879), later known as Joseph Cinqu, was a West African man of the Mende 
tribe who ... and the cook of the ship; two slaves also died, and two sailors 
escaped. ... Translators from Mende to English were found, allowing the

Question: Josiah Gibbs got help translating for the accused men of this ship from James Covey, an African sailor, once a slave
Answer: the Amistad