“Village in Mendi, with Palm Trees, &c”
From John Warner Barber’s A History of the Amistad Captives, New Haven, CT (E.L. and J.W. Barber, Hitchcock & Stafford, Printers, 1840). Page 24.
Library of Congress
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The profile of Margru on which we base what we know of her family and how she was enslaved.
From John Warner Barber’s A History of the Amistad Captives, New Haven, CT (E.L. and J.W. Barber, Hitchcock & Stafford, Printers, 1840). Page 15
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Captive Africans Taken to Slave Ship, Nigeria, 1850s
The Church Missionary Intelligencer. A Monthly Journal of Missionary Information (vol. 7 [1856], frontispiece, facing p. 241.
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Canoe for Transporting Slaves, Sierra Leone, 1840s
The Illustrated London News (April 14, 1849), vol. 14, p. 237.
Columbia University
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The Slave Deck on the Bark ‘Wildfire,’ 1860
Engraved from daguerreotype, published in Harper’s Weekly (June 2, 1860), vol. 4, p. 344
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Havana Harbor
“Streets Scenes in Havana” by Frank H. Taylor
Harper’s new monthly magazine. / Volume 58, Issue 347
Harper & Bros. New York
April 1879
Making of America Digital Library
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Coachmen with Carriages, Havana, Cuba, ca. 1851
Album Pintoresco de la Isla de Cuba (Havana[?], 1851 [?]), plate 8 (copy in Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library). The Library of Congress gives [Berlin, 1860?] as the imprint data for this book.
My copy from:
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record by Jerome S. Handler and Michael L. Tuite Jr. (digital library web site)
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/details.php?filename=Album-8
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Kale, Teme, and Kagne
From John Warner Barber’s A History of the Amistad Captives, New Haven, CT (E.L. and J.W. Barber, Hitchcock & Stafford, Printers, 1840). Page 15
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Fake document made by the three girls’ Cuban owner so it would appear they were born in Cuba.
Filiacion June 22 1839
License and Pass
U.S. National Archives
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The Illustrated London News (June 20, 1857), vol. 30 p. 595. (Copy in Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library)
This copy from:
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record by Jerome S. Handler and Michael L. Tuite Jr. (digital library
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/details.php?filename=iln595e
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Death of Capt. Ferrer the Captain of the Amistad, July, 1839.
From John Warner Barber’s A History of the Amistad Captives, New Haven, CT (E.L. and J.W. Barber, Hitchcock & Stafford, Printers, 1840). Plate folded into front of book.
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New Haven Green
Connecticut Historical Society
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Example of images from the sort of books Tappan brought to the children.
Sunday School Books digital library.
Michigan State University Libraries.
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Farmington
Barber, John W. Connecticut Historical Collections.
Connecticut Historical Society, Columbia University
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Freetown, Capital of Sierra Leone
From The Palm Land; or, West Africa Illustrated, George Thompson, Cincinnati, 1859.
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Kaw Mendi
From The Palm Land; or, West Africa Illustrated, George Thompson, Cincinnati, 1859.
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The Meeting House, Tappan Square, and Oberlin Institute Buildings – 1846
Howe, Henry. Historical Collections of Ohio (Cincinnati – 1848),
Oberlin College Archives
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Fifteen women graduates shown here with Mrs. James Dascomb and Mrs. Charles Finney several years after Margru was a student at Oberlin. Mrs. Dascomb was one of her teachers.
Oberlin College Archives
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