Muriel and William Peters collection, 1817-1968 (inclusive), [microform].

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Muriel and William Peters collection, 1817-1968 (inclusive), [microform].

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The collection contains material on the capture, trial, and release of the Amistad captives who were illegally sold into slavery. After seizing the ship that was taking them to the Caribbean, the Africans were captured by a U.S. Navy ship and imprisoned in New Haven, Connecticut. The Amistad Case was tried before the Supreme Court and the Court decided in favor of the Africans. The collection consists of diaries, letters, court and government records, and newspaper accounts of the case; secondary accounts of the case; and background information on Africa, Cuba, the slave-trade, similar cases, slavery in the United States, and abolitionist sentiment in the North.

16 reels.

Yale University Library

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Yale University Library

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Amistad (Schooner)

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Peters, William

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Brother of Pennsylvania provincial secretary Richard Peters. Together with Jacob DucheĢ (later chaplain to the Continental Congress), Peters attended the second treaty negotiations at Easton (July-Aug., 1757) between Delaware and Seneca representatives led by Teedyuscung and Pennsylvania governor Denny, his council, and Indian agent George Croghan. Numerous Quakers were also present at the negotiations despite official bans on their presence. From the descrip...

Peters, Muriel

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