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Biographies of Players in the Amistad Affair

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The Amistad Captives

Cinque
Others

Cuban Slaveholders

Pedro Montes
Jose Ruiz

Attorneys for the Amistads

Roger Baldwin
John Quincy Adams

U. S. District Attorney

William Holabird

Government Leaders

President Martin Van Buren
Secretary of State John Forsyth

Other Key Players

Richard Madden, Anti-Slavery Comm'n.
Josiah Gibbs, Linquitics Prof.
James Covey, Interpreter

The Judges

Andrew Judson
Smith Thompson
Justice Joseph Story

The Missionaries

Lewis Tappan
William Raymond

Home Trial Account

Other Resources

  • The Amistad Trials: An Account
  • Stamped With Glory: Lewis Tappan and the Africans of the Amistad
  • The Amistad Case: A Chronology
  • Map of the Amistad Case
  • Biographies of Players in the Amistad Affair
  • Newspaper Accounts
  • Biographical information about any of the captives
  • Trial history of The Amistad Case
  • The U. S. v Libellants and Claimants of the Schooner Amistad
  • Letter from Lewis Tappan (Sept. 9, 1839)
  • Images of the Amistad Case
  • Salvaging Amistad
  • Stephen Spielberg's "Amistad" (1997)
  • The Amistad Trial: Links & Bibliography
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