Jones, Howard. "Mutiny on the Amistad: ' All We Want is Make Us Free.'" The Connecticut Scholar: Occasional Papers of the Connecticut Humanities Council. (1992) no.10:7-25.

Meanwhile, the captives had become a public attraction. The abolitionists had made sure that the blacks became the subject of many human-interest stories, particularly the "discovery" that they were human, with a civilized background. Some of the most poignant stories derived from Professor Gibbs's search on the docks of New York and New Haven for a native African who could speak the captives' language and so permit their story to be heard. Other moving accounts came from the attempts by professors and students at Yale College and the Theological Seminary to instruct the blacks in English and Christianity. But the most compelling attraction was Cinque, who was from Mende and had conspired with Grabeau and Burnah in leading the revolt. In his mid-twenties, Cinque was married, with three children, was taller than most Mende people and, as seen in the contemporary portrait by New England abolitionist Nathaniel Jocelyn, was charismatic, majestic, lightly bronzed, and strikingly handsome. In the course of the district-court trial, he had aroused widespread sympathy by emotionally proclaiming in English, "Give us free! Give us free!" Then there were the children—three females and one male, the last of whom was Kale, who had learned enough English to become the blacks' spokesman.

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