Congregational Library Amistad Resources
The Congregational Library can serve as a resource
for persons interested in learning in depth about the work
of the Amistad Incident, the Amistad Committee, the AMA,
abolitionism, etc.
The following Amistad-related items are on the shelves
of the Congregational Library at 14 Beacon Street.
Items over thirty-five years of age cannot be borrowed
by mail but can be used there. Items that may be borrowed
are marked with an asterisk:
• Rev. A. F. Beard, The story of the Amistad. N.Y. no date
(but old), 12 pages, published by the AMA.
• Owen Dodson/ The Amistad. N.p., n.d., 100 pages. Old.
• Robert M. Healey. God made one blood, a serious play.
N.p., n.d., 20 pages. Old.
*Mary Cable. Black odyssey; the case of the slave ship Amistad.
New York, Viking Press, 1971.
*Howard Jones. Mutiny on the Amistad; the saga of a slave
revolt and its impact on American abolition, law and diplomacy.
New York, Oxford University Press, 1987. 271 pages.
• Helen Kromer. Amistad; the slave uprising aboard the
Spanish schooner. Cleveland, Pilgrim Press.
• William A. Owens. Black Mutiny; the revolt on the schooner
Amistad. Philadelphia, 1958. 322 pages
• William A. Owens. Slave mutiny; the revolt on the schooner
Amistad. New York, J., Day Co., 1953. 312 pages.
*Barbara Chase-Riboud. Echo of lions. New York, Morrow, c.
1989. 381 pages. [Fiction]
and
• [Periodical] The Amistad; a journal of good news (Atlanta,
GA; Worcester, MA), by the Amistad Publishing Co., Negro State
Conferences of Congregational and Christian Churchers (May
1934 to May 1938, gaps).
Note: While the Congregational Library has the published
annual reports of the American Missionary Association, (the
originals are at the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans),
and a microfilm of the AMA archives, they don't provide much
information on the Amistad itself. However, the AMA grew out
of the Amistad Committee.
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