Africans in Chains. John Warner Barber, 1840, New Haven Museum and Historical Society
Original art depicting the captives.
Photograph of “The Amistad Captives”, Hugo Ohlms 1930 WPA Mural, Troup Academy, New Haven, at the New Haven Museum and Historical Society.
Photos of the mural by Hugo Ohlms. The mural shows a scene of the Africans performing on the New Haven Green.
Amistad Movie, Spielberg, S. (Director). (May 4, 1999) Amistad [Motion Picture] Dreamworks Video.
Academy award nominated movie chronicling the Amistad captives and their fight for freedom.
Cinque. Oil on canvas by Nathaniel Jocelyn (1796-1881). New Haven, c.1840. New Haven Museum and Historical Society
Oil portrait of Cinque in a heroic pose.
Doolittle Map, 1824
Shows the original nine squares of the New Haven Green and surrounding area.
Eastern View of New Haven Green. John Warner Barber, woodcut, 1840, New Haven Museum and Historical Society
View of the New Haven Green.
Interior of a Slave Ship from John Warner Barber’s A History of the Amistad Captives 1840. New Haven Museum and Historical Society
Depiction of the hold of a slave ship showing captives in a space three feet high.
La Amistad. Watercolor on paper by an unknown artist. Connecticut after 1839. New Haven after 1839. New Haven Museum and Historical Society
Painting of the schooner.
Mutiny on the Amistad. Hale woodruff, oil on canvas, c. 1941, New Haven Museum and Historical Society
Scene of the mutiny.
Newspaper advertisement for the “New Haven Museum”, New Haven Palladium, 1841, New Haven Museum and Historical Society
Copy of actual newspaper article.