Compiled by Dorothy Ann Washington, Librarian, Black Cultural Center,
Purdue University


Adams, John Quincy.  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, delivered
on the 24th of February and 1st of March, 1841.  New York: Negro Universities 
Press, 1969. Reprint of the 1841 ed.

380.14409 Ad18a (HSSE)

[Amistad (selected) WEB SITES]  

   CORNELL UNIVERSITY
   http://www.law.cornell.edu/amistad

   PARTIAL CONTENTS:  The Amistad revolt (1839) -- The original Amistad
   case (184).  United States v. The Amistad, 40 U.S. 518 (1841) --
   The full text of John Quicy Adam's argument before the Supreme Court.
	
   NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS AMINISTRATION
   http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/amistad/home.html
    
     CONTENTS: Libel of Thomas R. Gedney, Lieutenant, U.S. Brig Washington, 
     August 29, 1839 -- Answer of the Proctors for the Amistad Africans,
     January 7, 1840 -- John Quincy Adams' request for papers relating
     to the lower court trials of the Amistad Africans, January 23, 1841
     -- Opinion of the Supreme Court in United States v The Amistad 
     Africans, January 23, 1841 -- Statement of the Supreme Court to 
     Circuit Court, March 9, 1841.

Barber, John Warner.  A history of the Amistad captives.
New York: Arno Press, 1969.  Reprint of the 1840 ed.

382.4409 B233h  (HSSE)

Cable, Mary.  Black odyssey: the case of the slave ship Amistad.
New York: Viking Press, 1971.

382.44 C112b (Black Cultural Center)

Cohn, Raymond L.  "Deaths of slave in the middle passage."    
Journal of Economic History, Sept. 1985, 35-70.

330.5 J806 (HSSE)
    
Cook, Fred J. "The slave ship rebellion," American Heritage 8 (Feb. 1957):
60-64, 104-6.

973.05 Am3 c.2 (Storage)

Dinsmore, Charles A. "Interesting sketches of the Amistad captives," 
Yale University Library Gazette 9 (Jan. 1935): 51-55.

027.7 Ya12 c.99 (Storage)

Feelings, Tom. The middle passage: white ships/Black cargo. New York: 
Dial Books, 1995.

759.13 F321m 1995 (Undergraduate Library)

Fowler, L.N.  "Phrenological developments of Joseph Cinques, 
Alias Ginqua," American Phrenological Journal and Miscellany 2 (1840): 
title page, 136-38. 

051 Am356 Reel 1341 (HSSE)

Garland, Charles and Herbert S. Klein.  "The allotment of space for slaves 
eighteenth-century British slave ships."  William and Mary Quarterly, 
Apr. 1985, 238-48. 

973.05 W67 (HSSE)

Hunt, Bernice Kohn.  The Amistad mutiny.  New York: McCall,  1971.

973.57 H911a (HSSE)

Johnson, Charles Richard. Middle passage. New York: Atheneum, 1990.

813.54 J6295m 1990 (Black Cultural Center)

Jones, Howard.  Mutiny on the Amistad: the sage of a slave revolt and 
its impact on American abolition, law, and diplomacy.   New York: 
Oxford University Press, 1987.

326.0973 J717m (Black Cultural Center; HSSE)

Kipe, Kenneth F. and Brian T. Higgins.  Mortality caused by dehydration during
the middle passage.  In The Atlantic slave trade: effects on economies, societies,
and peoples in Africa, the Americas, and Europe, 1992.

306.362 At63 1992 (HSSE)

Klein, Herbert S.  The middle passage: comparative studies in the Atlantic Slave
Trade.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978.

380.144 K672m (HSSE)

Chapter 4: Shipping patterns and mortality in the African slave  
trade to Rio de Janeiro, 1825-1830.

Michinton, Walter E.  "Characteristics of British slaving vessels."  Journal of
Interdisciplinary History 20 (Summer '89): 53-81.

901.905 J826 (HSSE) 
	
McClendon, R. Earl. "The Amistad claims: inconsistencies of Policy," 
Political Science Quarterly 48 (Sept. 1933): 386-412.

320.5 P75 (HSSE)

Owens, William A.  Black mutiny: the revolt on Schooner Amistad.  Philadelphia:
Pilgrim Press, 1968.

380.14409 Ow2s 1968 (HSSE)