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Resources on Amistad

Amistad Memorial - the Connecticut State Library's page in Flickr cannot be located as of 5/23/2017. It had been at http://www.ctstatelibrary.org/photos/flickr/african-americans/amistad-memorial. (JG)

Research Guide to Materials Relating to Slavery in Connecticut - The Connecticut State Library's page is no longer available http://www.ctstatelibrary.org/subjectguides/research-guide-materials-relating-sl

The Amistad Rebellion by Marcus Rediker
Call Number: E447 .R44 2012
ISBN: 0670025046
Publication Date: 2012-11-08

The actions aboard the Amistad that July night and in the days and months that followed were pivotal events in American and Atlantic history, but not for the reasons we have always thought. The successful Amistad rebellion changed the very nature of the struggle against slavery. As a handful of self-emancipated Africans steered their own course to freedom, they opened a way for millions to follow. This stunning book honors their achievement.
Underground railroad and Amistad sites (the lost eight months) in Farmington, Connecticut by Shaw, Ernest R
Call Number: F104.F4 S53 2006
Publication Date: 2006
Susan B. Anthony, the Amistad and Civil Rights Act, historical documents [videorecording] by CT·N
Call Number: CT·N 3906
Publication Date: 2004
U.S. Navy and the Amistad by Dept. of the Navy, Naval Historical Center
Publication Date: 1998
Amistad revolt [electronic resource] : an historical legacy of Sierra Leone and the United States by U.S. Dept. of State, International Information Programs
Publication Date: 1998
Appellate case file no. 2161, United States v. the Amistad [microform] : 40 U.S. 518 (15 Peters 518), decided March 9, 1841, and related lower court and Department of Justice records by National Archives and Records Administration
Call Number: StLib Newspaper Room E447 .A65 1997
Publication Date: 1997
Amistad incident : four perspectives
Call Number: AS36.C8 A1
Publication Date: 1992
Amistad case : speech of Hon. J.A. Rockwell, of Conn., in the House of Representatives, August 8, 1848 : on the proposition to indemnify the owners of the Spanish schooner Amistad by Rockwell, John A. (John Arnold), 1803-1861
Call Number: Spec Coll E173 .C6 v.5 no.27
Publication Date: [S.l. : s.n., 1848]

Databases

Making of Modern Law: Trials 1600-1926
Trial documents, older secondary sources

Additional Resources - not at CSL

Library of Congress 1841: The Supreme Court issued a ruling freeing the remaining 35 survivors of the Amistad mutiny.