Description
A letter of introduction for Samuel Barney, living in Salem, Massachusetts. Barney is "of the Mandingo nation" and is believed by John Pickering to be a possible interpreter for the Amistad Captives after testing him with vocabulary from a volume of Rene Caillie's travel narratives.
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1839 09 16
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Amistad Research CenterKeywords
- America
- Amistad (Schooner)
- Antislavery Movements
- Correspondence
- History
- Slave Insurrections
- Slave Trade
- Slaver
- United States
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