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Title	Death of Capt. Ferrer, the captain of the Amistad, July 1839.
Topic	Africans Schooners Sailing ships Slave insurrections
Topic-Organization, Vessel	Amistad (Schooner)
Theme	Infrastructure
Description	On a sailing vessel, Africans with machetes attack a man who falls wounded. Another man flees toward the mast. An African climbs the ratlines at the left. Letterpress text beneath image: "Death of Capt. Ferrer, the Captain of the Amistad, July 1839. / Don Jose Ruiz and Don Pedro Montez of the island of Cuba, having purchased fifty-three slaves at Havana, recently imported from Africa, put them / on board the Amistad, Capt. Ferrer, in order to transport them to Principe, another port on the island of Cuba. After being out from Havana about / four days, the African captives on board, in order to obtain their freedom and return to Africa, armed themselves with cane knives and rose upon the / Captain and crew of the vessel. Capt. Ferrer and the cook of the vessel were killed; two of the crew escaped; Ruiz and Montez were made prisoners."<br>
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger. <br>The Africans were eventually captured in Long Island Sound, imprisoned in New Haven, tried in Hartford and subsequently in the Supreme Court in Washington D. C. where John Quincy Adams pleaded their case. Following their acquittal they lived in Farmington until they were able to return to Africa. <br>
Date created	1839.
Physical format	1 photomechanical reproduction ; 15 x 23 cm.<br>
Digital format	image/jpeg
Identifier	Accession number X.1998.180.0<br>File name 0538 img0049.pcd<br>
Source	The Connecticut Historical Society.
Rights	Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from The Graphics Collection, The Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford.
Sub-collection	Prints

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