Barber, John Warner A History of the Amistad Captives: Being a Circumstantial Account of the Capture of the Spanish Schooner Amistad, the Africans on Board; their Voyage, and Capture, near Long Island, New York; with Biographical Sketches of each of the Surviving Africans, Also an Account of the Trials ... Compiled from Authentic Sources. New Haven, CT: E.L. & J.W. Barber, 1840 8vo (225 x 142 mm), 32 pp., large folding frontispiece, partially handcolored, additional illustrations including 38 engraved profiles of the captives; minor foxing. Antique-style three-quarter calf, leather label and gilt tooling to spine. First edition, the only contemporary account of "the most famous of all the shipboard revolts," which galvanized the abolitionist movement; with the striking frontispiece depicting the death of Captain Ferrer An exceedingly rare history documenting one of the most important events of its time, published in the same year the New Haven court ruled the slave owners had no claim on the Amistad rebels, preceding publication of Adams's and Baldwin's 1841 Supreme Court arguments. Featuring the large folding engraved frontispiece depicting the death of the Amistad's captain, along with Barber's thirty-eight engraved profiles of the Amistad rebels made during his visits to jail, a map of Mendi and a Mendi village in Africa, and an engraving of nine Amistad Africans chained in the slave ship that took them to Cuba. "The rebellion became one of the most important events of its time. … Assisted in their legal battle by distinguished attorneys Roger S. Baldwin and former president John Quincy Adams, who made dramatic speeches before the U.S. Supreme Court in February and March 1841, the Amistad revels won their freedom. … The abolitionist movement claimed a great, historic, and altogether unlikely victory" (Rediker). REFERENCECelebration of My Country 182; American Imprints 40-480; Afro-Americana Imprints 881; Dumond 24; Sabin 3324; Marcus Rediker, The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom (New York: Viking, 2012)
Barber, John Warner A History of the Amistad Captives: Being a Circumstantial Account of the Capture of the Spanish Schooner Amistad, the Africans on Board; their Voyage, and Capture, near Long Island, New York; with Biographical Sketches of each of the Surviving Africans, Also an Account of the Trials ... Compiled from Authentic Sources. New Haven, CT: E.L. & J.W. Barber, 1840 8vo (225 x 142 mm), 32 pp., large folding frontispiece, partially handcolored, additional illustrations including 38 engraved profiles of the captives; minor foxing. Antique-style three-quarter calf, leather label and gilt tooling to spine. First edition, the only contemporary account of "the most famous of all the shipboard revolts," which galvanized the abolitionist movement; with the striking frontispiece depicting the death of Captain Ferrer An exceedingly rare history documenting one of the most important events of its time, published in the same year the New Haven court ruled the slave owners had no claim on the Amistad rebels, preceding publication of Adams's and Baldwin's 1841 Supreme Court arguments. Featuring the large folding engraved frontispiece depicting the death of the Amistad's captain, along with Barber's thirty-eight engraved profiles of the Amistad rebels made during his visits to jail, a map of Mendi and a Mendi village in Africa, and an engraving of nine Amistad Africans chained in the slave ship that took them to Cuba. "The rebellion became one of the most important events of its time. … Assisted in their legal battle by distinguished attorneys Roger S. Baldwin and former president John Quincy Adams, who made dramatic speeches before the U.S. Supreme Court in February and March 1841, the Amistad revels won their freedom. … The abolitionist movement claimed a great, historic, and altogether unlikely victory" (Rediker). REFERENCECelebration of My Country 182; American Imprints 40-480; Afro-Americana Imprints 881; Dumond 24; Sabin 3324; Marcus Rediker, The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom (New York: Viking, 2012)
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