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The Mendi Bible is a Bible presented to John Quincy Adams in 1841 by a group of freed Mendi captives who had mutinied on the schooner ''La Amistad''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Collections )〕〔() 〕〔() 〕 Adams, a former President of the United States and a then-U.S. Representative, was given the Bible as a gift in thanks for his representation of the Mende captives before the Supreme Court, who were freed when the Court ruled in their favor.〔() 〕〔() 〕 The Mendi Bible was presented along with a letter of thanks which read in part:
The Mendi Bible is currently curated in the Stone Library at the Adams National Historical Park in Quincy, Massachusetts.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Committee Reports )〕 The book was stolen from the Adams site in November 1996 and subsequently recovered by the FBI in a gym locker in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in January 1997.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=H-SHEAR )〕〔() 〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=£2m security plan after museum raid )〕 Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, the state's first African-American governor, took his oath of office on the Mendi Bible on January 4, 2007,〔() 〕 and took his second oath of office on the Mendi Bible on January 6, 2011.〔() 〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mendi Bible」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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