CASES

Gedney v. L’Amistad, 10 F. Cas. 141 (1840) (Judge Judson’s decision), with excerpts available at http://www.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf/page/tu_amistad_doc_7.html

United States v. Libellants and Claimants of the Schooner Amistad, 40 U.S. 518 (1841)

WEBSITES

Federal Judicial Center, Amistad: The Federal Courts and the Challenge to Slavery, at http://www.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf/page/tu_amistad_narrative.html

History Channel, Amistad Case, at http://www.history.com/topics/amistad-case

Prof. Douglas O. Linder, Famous American Trials: Amistad Trials, at http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/amistad/AMISTD.HTM

U.S. Dep’t of State, The Amistad Case, 1839, at https://history.state.gov/milestones/1830-1860/amistad

BOOKS

Jones, Howard, Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy(1997)

Osagie, Iyunolu Folayan, The Amistad Revolt: Memory, Slavery, and the Politics of Identity in the United States and Sierra Leone(2000)

Owens, William A., Black Mutiny: Revolt on the Schooner Amistad (1997)

Rediker, Marcus, The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Freedom and Rebellion (2012)

MISCELLANEOUS

Curriculum materials, Federal Judicial Center, Amistad: the Federal Courts and the Challenge to Slavery, at http://www.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf/page/tu_amistad_activities.html

Argument of John Quincy Adams in Amistad Case in the Supreme Court, at http://www.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf/page/tu_amistad_doc_9.html

Libel of Lt. Thomas R. Gedney, Aug. 29, 1839, at http://www.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf/page/tu_amistad_doc_1.html

Amistad (1997) (movie directed by Steven Spielberg)