Here is a list of books and periodicals on the Amistad incident, slavery and the abolitionist movement. Some were consulted for the accompanying story:

Mutiny on the Amistad by Howard Jones, Oxford University Press, 1987 (reissued 1997).

"The Amistad Incident: A Classroom Reenactment" by Tedd Levy, Social Education, September 1995.

A History of the Amistad Captives by John Warner Barber, Arno Press & The New York Times, 1969 (reprint of the 1840 edition).

Black Odyssey: The Case of the Slave Ship Amistad by Mary Cable, Viking Press, 1971 (reissued 1997).

"The Slave Ship Rebellion" by Fred J. Cook, American Heritage, February 1957.

American Slavery, 1619-1877 by Peter Kolchin, Hill and Wang, 1993.

Africans in the Americas: A History of the Black Diaspora by Michael L. Conniff and Thomas J. Davis, St. Martin's Press, 1994.

African Americans in Newport: An Introduction to the Heritage of African Americans in Newport, Rhode Island, 1700-1945 by Richard C. Youngken, Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission and Rhode Island Black Heritage Society.

The Abolitionists: The Growth of a Dissenting Minority by Merton L. Dillon, Northern Illinois University Press, 1974.

Black Cargoes: A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1518-1865 by Daniel P. Mannix and Malcolm Cowley, Viking Press, 1962.

Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery by James Brewer Stewart, Hill and Wang, 1976.

The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817-1914 by George M. Fredrickson, Wesleyan University Press, 1987.

Black Mutiny by William A. Owens, Black Classic Press, 1968 (reissued 1997).

Amistad: The Thunder of Freedom by David Pesci, Marlowe & Co., 1997.

Echo of Lions by Barbara Chase-Riboud, William Morrow & Co., 1989 (out of print).

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