Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885 A History of the Amistad captives...

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GLC04295
GLC#
GLC04295
Type
Broadsides, posters & signs
Date
1840
Author/Creator
Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885
Title
A History of the Amistad captives...
Place Written
New Haven, Connecticut
Pagination
1 p. : Height: 29.8 cm, Width: 48 cm
Primary time period
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
Sub-Era
Slavery & Anti-slavery

title continues: "...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, and account of the Trials had on their case, before the District and Circuit Courts of the United States, for the District of Connecticut, &c." Depicts the death of Captain Ramon Ferrer of the Amistad in July of 1839, on a slave trade route from Havana to Principe. A version of this image serves as an inset fold-out for Barber's pamphlet (refer to GLC04574).

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