Post on 31-Mar-2015
La Amistad
Joseph Cinquez or
Sengbe Pieh
James Covey
Mende language
Roger Baldwin
Kin-na
Significance
It was the 1st human rights case to be heard, fought & won in the US Supreme Court.
It weakened Spanish (Cuban) & American ties. Queen Isabella II argued the case with 7 other presidents.
It was a cause of the American Civil War.
It strengthened the abolition movement and American & British antislavery groups grew in #’s.
It showed how a president could authorize actions that interfered with judicial process; thus, they strengthened the court systems.
Van Buren was not re-elected.
The slave fortress in Lomboko was found and destroyed.
Missionaries went to Africa to teach Christianity and to educate them.
• http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/barber/barber.html
• Text of the court case.
53 Africans were transferred to La Amistad, a ship chartered by two Spaniards who had “purchased” the captives at auction in Havana, Cuba.
On the Teccora
Mende language
Letter to John Quincy Adams
• Kali's January 4, 1841 letter pleaded: "All we want is make us free."
Slaver Montes points at Cinque