[Testimonies regarding the capture of the Amistad; includes Cinque's testimony]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05636.14 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: 9 January 1840 Pagination: 4 p. : Height: 32.6 cm, Width: 19.2 cm Order a Copy
Marked "&c Cinqué" at top. Appears to be a continuation of GLC 5636.13. Testimony of Cinqué, leader of the Africans aboard the Amistad, continues. Contains the testimonies of Grabbo and Foolaqua, Amistad mutineers. Includes the testimony of Norris Wilcox (United States Marshal for the District of Connecticut), Captain Mather (on board the USS Washington when it came in contact with the Amistad), Professor Josiah Gibbs (who claimed based on the Amistad Africans' language, they were recently arrived from Africa and had not resided in Cuba), Reverend George Day (employed to supervise the instruction of the Mende captives by Yale Divinity School students), and Colonel Stanton Pendleton (jailer where Amistad mutineers were held captive).
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