The Amistad Rebellion
The Amistad Rebellion

Author: Marcus Rediker

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013-11-26

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 014312398X

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"Vividly drawn . . . this stunning book honors the achievement of the captive Africans who fought for—and won—their freedom.”—The Philadelphia Tribune A unique account of the most successful slave rebellion in American history, now updated with a new epilogue—from the award-winning author of The Slave Ship In this powerful and highly original account, Marcus Rediker reclaims the Amistad rebellion for its true proponents: the enslaved Africans who risked death to stake a claim for freedom. Using newly discovered evidence and featuring vividly drawn portraits of the rebels, their captors, and their abolitionist allies, 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. The successful Amistad rebellion changed the very nature of the struggle against slavery. As a handful of self-emancipated Africans steered their own course for freedom, they opened a way for millions to follow. This edition includes a new epilogue about the author's trip to Sierra Leona to search for Lomboko, the slave-trading factory where the Amistad Africans were incarcerated, and other relics and connections to the Amistad rebellion, especially living local memory of the uprising and the people who made it.

Mutiny on the Amistad
Mutiny on the Amistad

Author: Howard Jones

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1997-11-20

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 0190281324

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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.

Behind the Amistad
Behind the Amistad

Author: Michael Zeuske

Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers

Published: 2014-03-12

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9781558765931

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Originally published as: Geschichte der Amistad. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2012.

The Story of the Amistad
The Story of the Amistad

Author: Emma Gelders Sterne

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-03-12

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 0486111415

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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.

Amistad
Amistad

Author: Alexs D. Pate

Publisher: DreamWorks

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780451195166

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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 Amistad Revolt
The Amistad Revolt

Author: Iyunolu Folayan Osagie

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 0820324655

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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.

Black Mutiny
Black Mutiny

Author: William A. Owens

Publisher: Black Classic Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9781574780048

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"Black Mutiny" is the historical retelling of one of our nation's most dramatic national crises. It is one among many historical sources used in the development of the new motion picture "Amistad." Written as a novel in 1953 by William A. Owens, this is one historian's view of the Amistad mutiny. Based on U.S. government documents, court records, official and personal correspondence, diaries, and newspaper accounts, it tells the true story of 53 illegally enslaved Africans who revolted against their captors. After the Amistad was intercepted and seized by the United States Navy, the imprisoned Africans were forced to stand trial for mutiny and murder in a case that reached the Supreme Court. With its impassioned plea for freedom for all people, "Black Mutiny" brilliantly recreates a critical moment in America's racial history more than twenty years before the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation. It is a rousing and unforgettable story of oppression, justice, and the precious cost of human dignity.

Ardency
Ardency

Author: Kevin Young

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0307267644

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A poetic epic chronicles the story of the Africans who mutinied on board the slave ship Amistad through different voices, from an interpreter for the rebels to inmates in a New Haven jail who appealed to John Quincy Adams.

The Slave Ship
The Slave Ship

Author: Emma Gelders Sterne

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Published: 1953

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780590443609

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Describes, in story form, an incident in 1839 when a boatload of African slaves seized control of the ship and finally gained legal freedom in the American courts.