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. 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: For the Mendi people.CINQUE,KINNA,KALE. Boston, Nov. 6, 1841.