Portrait of Sengbe Pieh

(Joseph Cinqué)

William H. Townsend’s sketches of the Amistad captives

Amistad Painting

Map of the Amistad Case

Georgia:

The Amistad trial

Episode sources:

1. “The Amistad Revolt: All We Want is Make Us Free” 

2. United States v The Amistad

3. The Amistad Case (The National Archives)

4. “The Amistad Case in Fact and Film” by Eric Foner (History Matters, George Mason University)

5. "Brief Narrative of the Amistad Incident" by Steven Mintz (Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition)

6. “A suspicious sail - a pirate” (The New York Daily Herald, August 24, 1839)

7. “The Africans Taken” (The Long-Island Star, August 29, 1839)

8. “The Amistad Africans” (New York Tribune, December 7, 1841)

9. “The Africans” (The New Haven Record, October 10, 1839)

10. “Imprisonment of Ruiz and Montez” (York Gazette, October 29, 1839)

11. “Lomboko”

12. “Pedro Blanco”

13. “Coast Survey’s Little Known Role in the Case of the Amistad” (NOAA)

14. “A Different Look at the Amistad Trial: The Teenager Who Helped Save the Mende Captives” (Connecticut History)

15. TikToker Mentioned by Karen: yuji_beleza

Karen:

The dog crate prison break

Episode sources:

1. “Living with Conviction” by Toby Dorr

2. “About” (Toby Dorr)

3. “Toby Dorr” (Facebook)

4. “She helped a Lansing prisoner escape in a dog crate 12 years ago. Here’s her story” by Lauren Fox (Kansas City Star) 2018

5. “Off Leash” (Criminal) 2024

6. “LOCKED IN: I was a married mum but I ditched my husband for a convicted killer 21 years younger, I even busted him out of jail” by Kate Graham (The Sun) 2022

7. “She helped a Lansing prisoner escape in a dog crate 12 years ago. Here’s her story” by Lauren Fox (Kansas City Star) 2018

8. “The True Story of the Married Woman Who Smuggled Her Boyfriend Out of Prison in a Dog Crate” by Michael J. Mooney (The Atlantic) 2020

9. “Kansas man who infamously escaped Lansing facility in dog crate dies in Arizona prison” by Noelle Alviz-Gransee (Kansas City Star) 2024

10. “Prisoner whose escape in a dog crate became a movie dies behind bars” by Myriam Page (AOL/Independent) 2024

11. “Escaped inmate, dog trainer are captured in Tennessee” (Tampa Bay Times) 2006

12. “I helped an inmate escape prison. 16 years later, I’ve made peace with it” by Toby Dorr (Today) 2022

13. “Her Remarkable Journey From Convict to Advocate” (Brainwaves: Brain Injury Association of Arizona Blog)

John Manard and Toby Dorr

The cabin in Alpine, Tenn., where Toby Young and John Manard stayed for 12 days after Young helped Manard escape from prison in Lansing, Kan.

(Allison Long Kansas City Star)