Laura A. Macaluso was born in Norwalk, Connecticut and currently resides in Lynchburg, Virginia near the Blue Ridge Parkway. She has taught art history, worked and lived at historic sites and written about cultural heritage (specifically museum collections, monuments and murals) for twenty years. She was awarded a Fulbright in 2008-2009 to work at the National Museum in Swaziland in southern Africa, and returned in 2010 under a cultural heritage preservation grant from the State Department. Recent projects include the exhibit “An Artist at War: Deane Keller, New Haven’s Monuments Man” and the accompanying article in the Winter 2014/2015 issue of Connecticut Explored magazine. She is completing her doctoral dissertation which explores the relationship between art and city identity in the Humanities/Cultural and Historic Preservation departments at Salve Regina University (Newport, RI).

Laura A. Macaluso’s The Art of the Amistad and the Portrait of Cinqué is a book of many ambitions. . . [It] establishes a solid foundation for future scholarship and an accessible resource for those interested in a truly remarkable moment in transatlantic history.

• List of Illustrations PrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1:Prologue Chapter 2:Behind the Canvas Chapter 3:Presenting Cinqué/Collecting Cinqué:Chapter 4:Presenting Cinqué/Collecting Cinqué:Chapter 5:Coda BibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Laura A. Macaluso was born in Norwalk, Connecticut and currently resides in Lynchburg, Virginia near the Blue Ridge Parkway. She has taught art history, worked and lived at historic sites and written about cultural heritage (specifically museum collections, monuments and murals) for twenty years. She was awarded a Fulbright in 2008-2009 to work at the National Museum in Swaziland in southern Africa, and returned in 2010 under a cultural heritage preservation grant from the State Department. Recent projects include the exhibit “An Artist at War: Deane Keller, New Haven’s Monuments Man” and the accompanying article in the Winter 2014/2015 issue of Connecticut Explored magazine. She is completing her doctoral dissertation which explores the relationship between art and city identity in the Humanities/Cultural and Historic Preservation departments at Salve Regina University (Newport, RI).

Laura A. Macaluso’s The Art of the Amistad and the Portrait of Cinqué is a book of many ambitions. . . [It] establishes a solid foundation for future scholarship and an accessible resource for those interested in a truly remarkable moment in transatlantic history.

• List of Illustrations PrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1:Prologue Chapter 2:Behind the Canvas Chapter 3:Presenting Cinqué/Collecting Cinqué:Chapter 4:Presenting Cinqué/Collecting Cinqué:Chapter 5:Coda BibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Laura A. Macaluso was born in Norwalk, Connecticut and currently resides in Lynchburg, Virginia near the Blue Ridge Parkway. She has taught art history, worked and lived at historic sites and written about cultural heritage (specifically museum collections, monuments and murals) for twenty years. She was awarded a Fulbright in 2008-2009 to work at the National Museum in Swaziland in southern Africa, and returned in 2010 under a cultural heritage preservation grant from the State Department. Recent projects include the exhibit “An Artist at War: Deane Keller, New Haven’s Monuments Man” and the accompanying article in the Winter 2014/2015 issue of Connecticut Explored magazine. She is completing her doctoral dissertation which explores the relationship between art and city identity in the Humanities/Cultural and Historic Preservation departments at Salve Regina University (Newport, RI).

Laura A. Macaluso’s The Art of the Amistad and the Portrait of Cinqué is a book of many ambitions. . . [It] establishes a solid foundation for future scholarship and an accessible resource for those interested in a truly remarkable moment in transatlantic history.

• List of Illustrations PrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1:Prologue Chapter 2:Behind the Canvas Chapter 3:Presenting Cinqué/Collecting Cinqué:Chapter 4:Presenting Cinqué/Collecting Cinqué:Chapter 5:Coda BibliographyIndexAbout the Author