See Lesson Plans for using Amistad in the History classroom.

• Barber, John Warner. A History of the Amistad Captives. New York: Arno, 1969.
• Chase-Riboud, Barbara. Echo of Lions, 1988.
• Foner, Eric. "Hollywood Invades the Classroom." New York Times. December 20, 1997.
• Jones, Howard. Mutiny on the Amistad. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
• Martin, Edmond S. All We Want is Make Us Free: Amistad and the Reform Abolitionists. Lanham, MD. University Press of America, 1986.
• McCain, Diana R. Free Men: The Amistad Revolt and the American Anti-Slavery Movement. New Haven: New Haven Historical Society, 1990.
• Murray, David R. Odious Commerce: Britain, Spain, and the Abolition of the Cuban Slave Trade (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980).
• Thomas, Lord Hugh. The Slave Trade. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998.

Amistad Primary Documents

1. Opinion of Attorney General, U.S. Government, (address to the U.S. Congress-House) April 15, 1840
2. Pinckney’s Treaty, 1795, U.S. Government, January 1, 1795.
3. Treaty with Great Britain, U.S. Government, August 9, 1842.
4. Correspondence of the Count of Ofaliah, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain, to John H. Eaton, United States Minister to Spain, February 22, 1838.
5. Correspondence of Washington Irving, United States Minister to Spain, to Daniel Webster, Secretary of State of the United States, March 10, 1843.
6. Speech- Second Annual Message, President James Buchanan, December 6,1858.
7. "Spanish Schooner Amistad", New York Journal of Commerce, September 17, 1839.
8. "The Africans", New Haven Record Emancipator, November 7, 1939.
9. "Suppressing the Slave Trade", New York Morning, Hereld, October 21, 1839.

Amistad Internet Resources