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Amistad ~ 1839

Stories

La Amistad

Joseph Cinque

Newspaper Accounts

Gi-la-ba-ru, {Grab-eau}

Kimbo (cricket)

Nazha-u-lu (a water stick)

Gba-tu, (Bar-tu,) (a club or sword)

Gna-kwoi (in Ba-lu dialect, second born)

Fu-li-wa, Fu-li

P-ie, Pi-e, or Bi-a

Pu-gnwaw-ni, [Pung-wu-ni,] (a duck)

Ndam-ma, (put on or up,)

Fu-li-wu-lu

Ba-u, (broke)

Ba, (have none)

Shu-le, (water fall)

Ka-le, (bone)

Ba-gna, (sand or gravel)

Kin-na, (man or big man,)

Ndzha-gnwaw-ni, [Nga-ho-ni,] (water bird,)

Fang, [Fa-kin-na,]

Fahi-dzhin-na, [Fa-gin-na,] (twin,)

Fa-ban-na, (remember,)

Tsu-ka-ma, (a learner,)

Be-ri [Ber-ri,] (stick,)

Faw-ni, [Fo-ni,]

Bur-na, (twin,)

Shuma, (falling water,)

Ka-li, (bone,)

Te-me, (frog,)

Ka-gne, (country,

Mar-gru, (black snake,)

Captives Who Died in New Haven

James Covey

Jose Ruiz & Pedro Montes

LETTER FROM LEWIS TAPPAN (SEPT. 9, 1839)

The Political Implications of the Case

Amistad Memorial ~ New Haven Green

John Quincy Adams

John Q. Adams Draft

John Q. Adams Request~Two Pages

Answer of S. Staples, R. Baldwin, and T. Sedgewick

Opinion of the Supreme Court in United States v. The Amistad

Statement of the Supreme Court to Circuit Court

A Letter from Little Kali to John Quincy Adams