Mutiny on the Amistad - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mutiny on the Amistad write by Howard Jones. This book was released on 1997-11-20. Mutiny on the Amistad available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Amistad Slave Revolt and American Abolition
The Amistad Slave Revolt and American Abolition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Amistad Slave Revolt and American Abolition write by Karen Zeinert. This book was released on 1997. The Amistad Slave Revolt and American Abolition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traces the 1839 revolt of Africans aboard the slave ship Amistad, their apprehension, and long trial which ended in their acquittal by the Supreme Court.
Amistad Slave Revolt and American Abolition
Amistad Slave Revolt and American Abolition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Amistad Slave Revolt and American Abolition write by Karen Zeinert. This book was released on 1997-01. Amistad Slave Revolt and American Abolition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traces the 1839 revolt of Africans aboard the slave ship Amistad, their apprehension, and long trial which ended in their acquittal by the Supreme Court.
The Amistad Rebellion
The Amistad Rebellion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Amistad Rebellion write by Marcus Rediker. This book was released on 2013-10-01. The Amistad Rebellion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The dramatic story of a courageous rebellion against slavery On 28 June 1839, the Spanish slave schooner La Amistad set sail from Havana to make a routine delivery of human cargo. After four days at sea, on a moonless night, the captive Africans that comprised that cargo escaped from the hold, killed the captain, and seized control of the ship. They attempted to sail to a safe port, but were captured by the US navy and thrown into a Connecticut jail. Their legal battle for freedom eventually made its way to the Supreme Court, where former president John Quincy Adams took up their cause. 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 US legal system in books and films, most famously Steven Spielberg’s Amistad. These narratives reflect the elite perspective of the judges, politicians, and abolitionists involved. In this powerful and highly original account, Marcus Rediker reclaims the rebellion for its instigators: the African rebels who risked death to stake a claim for freedom. Using newly discovered evidence, Rediker reaches back to Africa to find the rebels’ roots, narrates their cataclysmic transatlantic journey, and unfolds a prison story of great drama and emotive power. Featuring vividly drawn portraits of the Africans, their captors, and their abolitionist allies, The Amistad Rebellion shows how the rebels captured the popular imagination and helped to inspire and build a movement that was part of a grand global struggle for emancipation. The actions of that distant July night and inthe 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 Africans steered a course to freedom, they opened a way for millions to follow. This stunning book honours their achievement.
Mutiny on the Amistad
Mutiny on the Amistad - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mutiny on the Amistad write by Howard Jones. This book was released on 2014. Mutiny on the Amistad available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
