Bibliography (Our Primary & Secondary Sources)

La Amistad off Culloden Point, Long Island, New York
Date: 26 August 1839
Contemporary Painting, Artist Unknown

PRIMARY SOURCES

John Quincy Adams's Request for Papers Relating to the Lower Court Trials of the Amistad

Africans [Petition for Certioriari]; 1841; United States, Appellants, v. The Libellants and Claimants of the Schooner Amistad, her tackle, apparel and furniture, together with her cargo, and the Africans mentioned and described in the several libels and claims, Appellees; Appellate Jurisdiction Case Files, 1792 - 2014; Records of the Supreme Court of the United States, Record Group 267; National Archives Building, Washington, DC. [Online Version, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/adams-amistad-request, April 23, 2021]

Proctors' Answer; 1/7/1840; Thomas R. Gedney v. Schooner Amistad; Case Files, 1790 - 1911;

Records of District Courts of the United States, Record Group 21; National Archives at Boston, Waltham, MA. [Online Version, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/answer-proctors-amistad-africans, April 22, 2021] 

Plea to the Jurisdiction of Cinque and Others; 8/21/1839; Thomas R. Gedney v. Schooner

Amistad; Case Files, 1790 - 1911; Records of District Courts of the United States, Record Group 21; National Archives at Boston, Waltham, MA. [Online Version, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/plea-jurisdiction-cinque, April 23, 2021] 

United States v. The Amistad, 40 US 518 (1841) (“the appellees who declared as alleged ‘slaves’ were

            wrongfully captured and sold, therefore declaring them free”)


SECONDARY SOURCES

Abraham, Arthur, and the United States. Department of State. Office of International Information

Programs. 1998. The Amistad Revolt: An Historical Legacy of Sierra Leone and the United States. Washington, D.C.] : [ U.S. Dept. of State, International Information Programs].

Adams, Monni. 2001. “African Roots of the Amistad Revolt: Sierra Leone: The African Roots of

the Amistad Revolt: Masks of the Sacred Bush.” American Anthropologist 103 (2): 518-521. 

Ferme, Mariane C. "Sitting on the Land: The Political and Symbolic Economy of the Chieftaincy." In
Out of War: Violence, Trauma, and the Political Imagination in Sierra Leone, 147-170. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2018.

Hogerzeil, Simon J. and Richardson, David. "Slave Purchasing Strategies and Shipboard

Mortality: Day-to-Day Evidence from the Dutch African Trade, 1751-1797." The Journal of Economic History 67, no. 1 (2007): 160-90. Accessed April 17, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4501137.

Lawrance, Benjamin N. “The Enslavements of Amistad’s Orphans.” In Amistad's Orphans: An

Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling, 88-129. Yale University Press, 2014. Accessed April 23, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt13x1tc9.8.

Lawrance, Benjamin N. “Epilogue: An Age of Child Enslavement.” In Amistad's Orphans: An

Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling, 266-72. Yale University Press, 2014. Accessed April 23, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt13x1tc9.12.

Lawrance, Benjamin N. “The Journeys of Amistad’s Orphans.” In Amistad's Orphans: An

Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling, 130-78. Yale University Press, 2014. Accessed April 23, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt13x1tc9.9.

Lawrance, Benjamin N. “The Origins of Amistad’s Orphans.” In Amistad's Orphans: An Atlantic

Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling, 47-87. Yale University Press, 2014. Accessed April 23, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt13x1tc9.7.

Nester, William. “The Masters Nightmare.” In The Age of Jackson and the Art of American Power,                    1815-1848, 137-146. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2013.

Zeuske, Michael and Garcia, Orlando. “La Amistad: Ramon Ferrer in Cuba and the Transatlantic

Dimensions of Slaving and Contraband Trade.” In Slavery and Anti-Slavery in Spain’s Atlantic Empire, edited by Josep Fradera and Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Volume Nine: 200-228. New York: Berghahn, 2013.

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