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AN EXCEPTIONAL ASSOCIATION COPY (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) [TAPPAN, LEWIS.] AMISTAD CAPTIVES. Africans Taken in Amistad. Congressional Document containing the Correspondence &c in Relation to the Captured Africans (drop- title); presentation "from l. tappan" at the top of the title-page. 48 pages. 8vo, removed.
Lewis Tappan (1788-1863) was the New York abolitionist who, in the opinion of John Quincy Adams, was most responsible for securing the freedom of Cinque and the other Africans of the Amistad. Contacted by Connecticut abolitionists soon after the Amistad was towed into port, Tappan dedicated himself to securing high quality legal representation for the captives, raising money for their defense and provision, increasing public support for their cause, recruiting teachers to provide them instruction, and finally arranging for their return to their African homeland. Tappan joined with Simeon Jocelyn and Joshua Leavitt to form the "Amistad Committee" that hired John Quincy Adams and Roger Baldwin as legal counsel. It was the decision of Tappan and the Committee to file civil suits in New York against the Spaniards Montes and Ruiz for assault, battery, and false imprisonment. The civil suits, though generating considerable anger and adverse publicity, succeeded in drawing public attention to the broader moral issues raised by the Amistad Affair. Tappan attended each day of the Amistad trials and wrote daily accounts of the proceedings for the Emancipator. The Supreme Court finally reached a decision in favor of the Africans in March of 1841.
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