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Author: Peter F. Copeland
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2002-12-20
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780486423753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeatures 28 meticulously rendered, ready-to-color illustrations, among them the capture of Africans in their homeland, their revolt aboard ship in Havana, imprisonment in a New Haven jail, and their successful defense before the Supreme Court by former U.S. President John Quincy Adams. Captions.
Author: Emma Gelders Sterne
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-03-12
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 0486111415
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGripping 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.
Author: Howard Jones
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1997-11-20
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 0190281324
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Laura A. Macaluso
Publisher: American Association for State and Local History
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781442253407
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Amistad incident, one of the few successful ship revolts in the history of enslavement, has been discussed by historians for decades, even becoming the subject of a Steven Spielberg film in 1997, which brought the story to wide audiences. But, while historians have examined the Amistad case for its role in the long history of the Atlantic, the United States and slavery, there is an oil on canvas painting of one man, Cinqué, at the center of this story, an image so crucial to the continual retelling and memorialization of the Amistad story, it is difficult to think about the Amistad and not think of this image. Visual and material culture about the Amistad in the form of paintings, prints, monuments, memorials, museum exhibits, quilts and banners, began production in the late summer of 1839 and has not yet ceased. Art of the Amistad and The Portrait of Cinqué is the first book to survey in total these Amistad inspired images and related objects, and to find in them shared ideals and cultural creations, but also divergent applications of the story based on intended audience and local context. Tracing the revolutionary creation of what art historian Stephen Eisenman calls "a highly individualized, noble portrait of an African man," Art of the Amistad and The Portrait of Cinqué is built around visual and material culture, and thus does not use images merely as illustration, but tells its story through the wide range of images and materials presented. While the Portrait of Cinqué seems to sit quietly behind Plexiglass at a local history museum, the impact of this 175-year old painting is palpable; very few portraits from the 19th century--let alone a portrait of a black man--remain a relevant part of culture as the Portrait of Cinqué continues to be today. Art of the Amistad the Portrait of Cinqué is about the art and artifacts that continue to inform and inspire our understanding of transatlantic history--a journey 175 years in the making.
Author: Alexs D. Pate
Publisher: DreamWorks
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780451195166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased 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.
Author: Marcus Rediker
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-11-26
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 014312398X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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.
Author: Patricia C. McKissack
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Published: 2021-09-14
Total Pages: 49
ISBN-13: 0593432762
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn amazing chapter in American history is now available in Step into Reading, the premier leveled reader line. In 1838, a slave ship named the Amistad took hundreds of kidnapped Africans on a long journey across the Atlantic. But the brave captives would not give up their freedom, taking over the ship so they could sail back to their homeland. This History Reader is not to be missed. Step 4 Readers use challenging vocabulary and short paragraphs to tell exciting stories. For newly independent readers who read simple sentences with confidence.
Author: María de Zayas y Sotomayor
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780838753446
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a bilingual edition of the only extant play, a comedy, written by the seventeenth-century Spanish writer, Maria de Zayas. This edition makes the play available to a wide audience of specialists and nonspecialists in the field of Spanish Golden Age theater.
Author: Joyce Annette Barnes
Publisher: Puffin
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780140390636
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen a group of illegally enslaved Africans seizes their captors' ship, the Amistad, in 1839, they find themselves in a courtroom, with not only their freedom at stake but also the entire institution of slavery on trial. Original. Movie tie-in.
Author: Mudpuppy
Publisher: Mudpuppy Books
Published: 2019-06-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780735361065
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA pawsitively purrfect tour through modern art history! Introduce modern art meowsters with this book of adorable cat portraits, each inspired by an iconic style of art. The Artsy Cats Board Book from Mudpuppy features clever kitty-inspired artist names and painting credits, from Clawed Monet to Paw Klee. - 28 sturdy pages - Book trim: 7 x 7"
