Artist: John Warner Barber, American, 1798–1885, Death of Capt. Ferrer, the Captain of the Amistad, July, 1839, 19th century, Woodcut and watercolor, sheet: × cm (8 1/8 × 18 1/2 in.), In a desperate effort to return to the homes from which they had been kidnapped and sold into bondage, a group of West Africans led by Sengbeh Pieh, or Joseph Cinqué, mutinied aboard the schooner Amistad during their voyage to the Caribbean in July 1839. The Amistad and its passengers drifted up the American coast until the Navy took them into custody in Long Island Sound.

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