Amistad & New Haven
A photographic history with cited opening dates, collection history and individually credited images. Historic views, later photographs and illustrations are dated separately. This is a selected collection, not an exhaustive inventory.

id: SGC94-S1
title: National Park Service: New Haven Green
url: https://www.nps.gov/places/new-haven-green.htm
summary: Documents incarceration from September 1839 to August 1840, exercise on the Green and transfer to Westville.
kind: Historical sources
date: Source dates described in record
credit: National Park Service: New Haven Green
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id: SGC94-S2
title: National Park Service: Self-Emancipation
url: https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/self-emancipation.htm
summary: History of the revolt, legal proceedings and the Supreme Court decision of March 9, 1841.
kind: Historical sources
date: Source dates described in record
credit: National Park Service: Self-Emancipation
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id: SGC94-S3
title: Walk New Haven: Amistad Memorial
url: https://walknewhaven.org/amistad-memorial
summary: Edward Hamilton’s memorial was dedicated September 18, 1992 at the former jail site.
kind: Historical sources
date: Source dates described in record
credit: Walk New Haven: Amistad Memorial
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id: PHOTO-1536671
title: La Amistad off Long Island
kind: Illustrations & documents
date: 1839
institution: Amistad & New Haven
summary: A contemporary painting depicts La Amistad near Culloden Point on August 26, 1839, with the American vessel Washington. This is a painted historical view, not a photograph.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Amistad_(ship).jpg
credit: Unknown author Unknown author; Public domain; Wikimedia Commons
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id: PHOTO-8057763
title: Amistad Prisoners (18)
kind: Illustrations & documents
date: between 1839 and 1840
institution: Amistad & New Haven
summary: Sketch of an Amistad prisoner, drawn as they awaited trial in New Haven.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amistad_Prisoners_(18).jpg
credit: William H. Townsend; Public domain; Wikimedia Commons
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id: PHOTO-2391058
title: The modern Freedom Schooner Amistad
kind: Photographs
date: May 2007
institution: Amistad & New Haven
summary: A photograph of the modern reconstruction built at Mystic Seaport in 2000. The ship carries the Amistad story into public memory; it is not the original 1839 vessel.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amistad.JPG
credit: Jérémy PIEROT; CC BY-SA 3.0; Wikimedia Commons
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id: PHOTO-50834418
title: Amistad reconstruction at Key West
kind: Photographs
date: January 11, 2003
institution: Amistad & New Haven
summary: The Freedom Schooner photographed at Key West, Florida. This later scene is included as the history of the reconstruction, with its location distinguished from New Haven.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Replica_of_the_slave_ship_Amistad_docked_at_Key_West_(8431837279).jpg
credit: Florida Memory; Public domain; Wikimedia Commons
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id: PHOTO-65896078
title: A contemporary print of Sengbe Pieh
kind: Illustrations & documents
date: 1839
institution: Amistad & New Haven
summary: An 1839 print of Sengbe Pieh, also known as Joseph Cinqué. Its original title uses an inaccurate description of his origins; that wording is preserved at the source rather than adopted as the archive’s identification.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_Cinquez,_the_brave_Congolese_Chief,_who_prefers_death_to_slavery,_and_who_now_lies_in_jail_LCCN2003690782.jpg
credit: Popular Graphic Arts; Public domain; Wikimedia Commons
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id: PHOTO-10448765
title: James Covey’s testimony
kind: Illustrations & documents
date: October 4, 1839
institution: Amistad & New Haven
summary: The first page of James Covey’s deposition concerning the Africans held in New Haven jail. His testimony helped make their account understandable within the legal proceedings.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Covey_deposition_on_Amistad_captives_held_in_New_Haven_jail_page_1.jpg
credit: James Covey, deponent (written in an unknown hand); Public domain; Wikimedia Commons
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