Mar 31, 2016 - Sale 2408

Sale 2408 - Lot 37

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) AMISTAD CAPTIVES. Group of seven issues of Boston Daily Centinel and Gazette describing the Amistad Captives and their plight. Uniform large folio; paper lightly and evenly toned; a transcription of each of the articles is provided. Boston, 28 August 1839 to 19 September 1839

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Seven issues with excellent content regarding Cinque and the other Amistad Captives, as they were called. This case captured the imagination of the abolitionists, and the New England abolitionists in particular. The articles in these newspapers lend an immediacy to the story lacking in later historical accounts.