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The Amistad Revolt
Author | : Iyunolu Folayan Osagie |
Publsiher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2010-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780820327259 |
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From journalism and lectures to drama, visual art, and the Spielberg film, this study ranges across the varied cultural reactions--in America and Sierra Leone--engendered by the 1839 Amistad slave ship revolt. Iyunolu Folayan Osagie is a native of Sierra Leone, from where the Amistad's cargo of slaves originated. She digs deeply into the Amistad story to show the historical and contemporary relevance of the incident and its subsequent trials. At the same time, she shows how the incident has contributed to the construction of national and cultural identity both in Africa and the African diasporo in America--though in intriguingly different ways. This pioneering work of comparative African and American cultural criticism shows how creative arts have both confirmed and fostered the significance of the Amistad revolt in contemporary racial discourse and in the collective memories of both countries.
Mutiny on the Amistad
Author | : Howard Jones |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1997-11-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780190281328 |
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This volume presents the first full-scale treatment of the only instance in history where African blacks, seized by slave dealers, won their freedom and returned home. Jones describes how, in 1839, Joseph Cinqué led a revolt on the Spanish slave ship, the Amistad, in the Caribbean. The seizure of the ship by an American naval vessel near Montauk, Long Island, the arrest of the Africans in Connecticut, and the Spanish protest against the violation of their property rights created an international controversy. The Amistad affair united Lewis Tappan and other abolitionists who put the "law of nature" on trial in the United States by their refusal to accept a legal system that claimed to dispense justice while permitting artificial distinctions based on race or color. The mutiny resulted in a trial before the U.S. Supreme Court that pitted former President John Quincy Adams against the federal government. Jones vividly recaptures this compelling drama--the most famous slavery case before Dred Scott--that climaxed in the court's ruling to free the captives and allow them to return to Africa.
United States V Amistad
Author | : Susan Dudley Gold |
Publsiher | : Marshall Cavendish |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0761421432 |
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Describes the historical context of the 1841 U.S. Supreme Court case United States v. "Amistad" that ruled that illegally enslaved blacks had the right to be free.
A History of the Amistad Captives
Author | : John Warner Barber |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 1840 |
Genre | : HISTORY |
ISBN | : PRNC:32101037454285 |
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Published in 1840, this account of the capture of the slave traderAmistad by the Africans on board includes biographical sketches of each of the surviving Africans and details of the court cases that decided their freedom.
The Amistad
Author | : Robert Grayson |
Publsiher | : ABDO |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Antislavery movements |
ISBN | : 1617147613 |
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Provides a brief history of the captured and enslaved Africans who mutinied to protect themselves and the legal battle that ensued in the United States over their guilt or freedom.
The Amistad Rebellion
Author | : Marcus Rediker |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2012-11-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781101601051 |
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On June 28, 1839, the Spanish slave schooner Amistad set sail from Havana on a routine delivery of human cargo. On a moonless night, after four days at sea, the captive Africans rose up, killed the captain, and seized control of the ship. They attempted to sail to a safe port, but were captured by the U.S. Navy and thrown into jail in Connecticut. Their legal battle for freedom eventually made its way to the Supreme Court, where their cause was argued by former president John Quincy Adams. In a landmark ruling, they were freed and eventually returned to Africa. The rebellion became one of the best-known events in the history of American slavery, celebrated as a triumph of the legal system in films and books, all reflecting the elite perspective of the judges, politicians, and abolitionists involved in the case. In this powerful and highly original account, Marcus Rediker reclaims the rebellion for its true proponents: the African rebels who risked death to stake a claim for freedom. Using newly discovered evidence, Rediker reframes the story to show how a small group of courageous men fought and won an epic battle against Spanish and American slaveholders and their governments. He reaches back to Africa to find the rebels’ roots, narrates their cataclysmic transatlantic journey, and unfolds a prison story of great drama and emotion. Featuring vividly drawn portraits of the Africans, their captors, and their abolitionist allies, he shows how the rebels captured the popular imagination and helped to inspire and build a movement that was part of a grand global struggle between slavery and freedom. The actions aboard the Amistad that July night and in the days and months that followed were pivotal events in American and Atlantic history, but not for the reasons we have always thought. The successful Amistad rebellion changed the very nature of the struggle against slavery. As a handful of self-emancipated Africans steered their own course to freedom, they opened a way for millions to follow. This stunning book honors their achievement.
Amistad
Author | : Alexs D. Pate |
Publsiher | : DreamWorks |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0451195167 |
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Based on the screenplay by David Franzoni and Steven Zallian The official movie tie-in to the Steven Spielberg film of the same name. Illustrated with 8 pages of colour photos from the film.
The Story of the Amistad
Author | : Emma Gelders Sterne |
Publsiher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2012-03-12 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780486111414 |
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Gripping tale of the epic 1839 revolt, aboard the schooner Amistad, of Africans bound for slavery in the New World. Young readers will thrill to the book's "you-are-there" flavor.