Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885 A history of the Amistad captives: being a circumstantial account of the capture of the Spanish schooner Amistad, by the Africans on board...
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04574 Author/Creator: Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885 Place Written: New Haven, Connecticut Type: Pamphlet Date: 1840 Pagination: 1 v. : 32 p. : ill. Height: 23.9 cm, Width: 15 cm Order a Copy
(title continues)... 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. Published by E. L. & J. W. Barber. Compiled by Barber, member of the Connecticut Historical Society. Contains a fold-out wood cut depicting the death of Captain Ramon Ferrer on board the Amistad (refer to GLC04295 for the individual wood-cut). This book was reprinted in 1969 by Arno Press and is also available on microfilm.
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