Mea Culpa

Wyatt-Brown acknowledges with hindsight that he should have more carefully scrutinized the assertions of Joseph Cinque's biographers. He calls for more research on the African activities of the American Missionary Association, the organization whose records and institutional memory may have giv...

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Published in:The Journal of American history (Bloomington, Ind.) Ind.), 2000-12, Vol.87 (3), p.947-948
Main Author: Wyatt-Brown, Bertram
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biographies
Cinque and the Historians: How a Story Takes Hold: A Round Table
Cinque, Joseph (Sengbe Pieh)
History
Missionaries
Slave traders
Slavery
Source studies
United States history
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Summary:Wyatt-Brown acknowledges with hindsight that he should have more carefully scrutinized the assertions of Joseph Cinque's biographers. He calls for more research on the African activities of the American Missionary Association, the organization whose records and institutional memory may have given rise to the rumor linking Cinque to the slave trade.
ISSN:0021-8723
1945-2314
1936-0967
DOI:10.2307/2675279