Excerpt from The Captives of the Amistad: A Paper Read Before the New Haven Colony Historical Society Friends and Brothers: We would have returned, but the sun was against us. I would not see you serve the white man. So I induced you to help me kill. The Captain. I thought I should be killed. I expected it. It would have been better. You had better be killed than live many moons in misery. I shall be hanged, I think, everyday. But this does not pain me. I could die happy if by dying I could save so many of my brothers from ...
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Excerpt from The Captives of the Amistad: A Paper Read Before the New Haven Colony Historical Society Friends and Brothers: We would have returned, but the sun was against us. I would not see you serve the white man. So I induced you to help me kill. The Captain. I thought I should be killed. I expected it. It would have been better. You had better be killed than live many moons in misery. I shall be hanged, I think, everyday. But this does not pain me. I could die happy if by dying I could save so many of my brothers from the bondage of the white men. It was thought prudent to handcuff Cinque and keep him on the Washington over night, but the next day he made signs to his guards that if taken back to the Amistad he could show them where there was a handkerchief full of doubloons. He was promptly rowed over to the schooner, and as the negroes gathered around him with joyful greetings, he again addressed them with great earnestness and passion, until at last they all seemed on the point of rising on their captors, and he was hur ried awav at a Sign from Antonio. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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