A history of the Amistad captives
Subtitle: 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
By: Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Slave insurrections; Antislavery movements; Trials (Mutiny); Slavery; History; Slave trade; Amistad (Schooner)
Other titles: North American slave narratives.
Notes: Title from TEI header.

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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.

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