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 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