"Joseph Cinquez", color lithograph, c.1839.

 

Courtesy of the Stanley Whitman House, Farmington, Connecticut

Caption of the above image reads: Leader of the gang of Negroes who killed Captain Ramon Ferrers and the cook on board the Spanish Schooner Amistad. Captured by Lieutenant Gedney of the U.S. Brig Washington at Culloden Point Long Island, August 24th, 1839.