The Spirit of Amistad: Links
Other Web Sites
Church-Related
- Amistad, the United Church of Christ has a significant web site, which includes an interactive discussion forum.
- Harford School for Girls, Moyamba, Harford School is a United Methodist mission school that goes back for decades and has educated thousands of leading women in Sierra Leone.
- New Haven Congregationalists, Abolition, and The Amistad Event on the United Church on the Green (New Haven, CN) web site
- To Release the Captives: The Amistad Incident' by the Rev. Peter J. Smith, First Congregational Church, Thomaston, CN, The author says, " I remember the thrill I felt when I was reading the diary of the original pastor of the church I serve. There is a brief entry for December 13, 1840, which reads, 'Took up a collection for the Amistad captives...'"
Secular
- African American History and Studies Links, Department of History, Tennessee Technological University
- African American Studies Links from Columbia University
- Amistad the official web site for the film from Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks
- Amistad America AMISTAD America Inc. is a not-for-profit educational organization formed to promote a project to build a replica of the Amistad
- The Amistad Case from the National Archives and Records Administration includes teaching resources for schools
- Amistad Project Transcriptions, Information about transcriptions related to the Amistad Event and full versions of a half dozen college student papers on Amistad
- Amistad Links from Cornell University Law School
- Amistad Research Center An independent archive, library, & museum dedicated to preserving African-American & ethnic history and culture at Tulane University (server is not always available, keep trying)
- Amistad Story Animation in Shockwave. Also available with no animation in regular web page format
- Amistad Trail, historical places to visit in Connecticut related to the Amistad event
- Amistad Video for Children and Teens The Amistad Committee in New Haven, Connecticut has produced a video about the Amistad Trial suitable for children and teens with an accompanying teacher's manual
- The History and Culture of Sierra Leone
- Sierra Leone Web, information and pictures about Sierra Leone today
- Slavery Timeline, from Amistad-the-Film
- The US Navy and the Amistad, a FAQ from the Department of the Navy
- US Supreme Court decision Full Text of the US Supreme Court Decision THE AMISTAD, 40 U.S. 518 (1841)
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