United States v. Amistad

Further Reading

Articles

• Jackson, Donald Dale. “Mutiny on the Amistad.” Smithsonian 28 (December 1997): 114–124.
• Jones, Howard. “Cinqué of the Amistad a Slave Trader? Perpetuating a Myth.” Journal of American History 87, no. 3 (2000): 923–939.

Books

• Finkelman, Paul, ed. Slavery, Race, and the American Legal System 1700–1872. New York: Garland, 1988.
• Jones, Howard. Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987 .
• Osagie, Iyunolu Folayan. The Amistad Revolt: Memory, Slavery, and the Politics of Identity in the United States and Sierra Leone. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000 .

Web Sites

• “Act of March 3, 1819, Relative to the Slave Trade.” Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture “The Abolition of the Slave Trade” Web site. http://abolition.nypl.org/Act_of_1819.pdf.
• “Amistad Trials 1839–1840.” Famous American Trials Web site. http://www.law.umkc.edu/Amistd.htm.
• “Argument of John Quincy Adams before the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of the United States, Appellants vs. Cinque, and others, Africans, captured in the schooner Amistad, by Lieut. Gedney.” HistoryCentral.com Web site. www.historycentral.com/amistad.html.