La Amistad. Joseph Cinquez or Sengbe Pieh James Covey.

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