The Captives of the Amistad is subtitled A Paper read before the New Haven Colony Historical Society. It was read before the Society May 17, 1886. This paper details the events surrounding the famous Amistad slave-ship incident of 1839, and the subsequent events and court trials resulting from the incident.
This document has been divided into several sections for purposes of presentation in this medium. As originally published, this document had no sections or chapters.
