Mutiny On The Amistad

Author : Howard Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190281328

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Mutiny on the Amistad by Howard Jones Pdf

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.

Author : William A. Owens
Publisher : Black Classic Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 1574780042

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Black Mutiny by William A. Owens Pdf

"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.

Author : Marcus Rediker
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101601051

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The Amistad Rebellion by Marcus Rediker Pdf

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.

Author : Susan Dudley Gold
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761421432

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United States V. Amistad by Susan Dudley Gold Pdf

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.

Author : Melissa Eisen Azarian
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0766030547

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The Amistad Mutiny by Melissa Eisen Azarian Pdf

"Explores the mutiny aboard the Amistad, including the slave revolt onboard, the trial of the slaves in U.S. courts, the appeal to the Supreme Court, and the inspiration for the movie, Amistad"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Howard Jones,Alan M. Dershowitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Antislavery movements
ISBN : OCLC:876143480

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Mutiny on the Amistad by Howard Jones,Alan M. Dershowitz Pdf

Author : John Warner Barber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : PRNC:32101037454285

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A History of the Amistad Captives by John Warner Barber Pdf

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.

Author : Bernice Kohn Hunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89062309620

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The Amistad Mutiny by Bernice Kohn Hunt Pdf

Using contemporary documents, traces the 1839 revolt of Africans aboard the slave ship Amistad, their subsequent apprehension, and long trial which ended in their acquittal by the Supreme Court.

Author : Emma Gelders Sterne
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780486111414

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The Story of the Amistad by Emma Gelders Sterne Pdf

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.

Author : Barbara A. Somervill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1592962270

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The Amistad Mutiny by Barbara A. Somervill Pdf

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.

Author : Kevin Young
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780375711619

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Ardency by Kevin Young Pdf

Now in paperback, a haunting chorus of voices that tells the story of the captivity, education, language, hopes, dreams, and fight for freedom, of the African Americans abducted in the Amistad rebellion. Based on the 1840 mutiny on board the slave ship Amistad, Ardency begins with "Buzzard," a sequence of poems told in the voice of the interpreter for the captive rebels, who were jailed in New Haven. In "Correspondence," we encounter the remarkable letters to John Quincy Adams and others that the captives wrote from jail. The book culminates in "Witness," a libretto chanted by Cinque, the rebel leader, who yearns for his family and freedom while eloquently evoking the Amistads' conversion and life in America. As Young conjures this array of characters, interweaving the liberation cry of Negro spirituals and the indoctrinating wordplay of American primers, he delivers his signature songlike immediacy at the service of an epic built on the ironies, violence, and virtues of American history.

Author : Suzanne Jurmain
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-20
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 068811072X

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Freedom's Sons by Suzanne Jurmain Pdf

AMISTAD CAPTIVES VICTORY JUSTICE TRIUMPHANT trumpeted the March 13,1841, headline of The Colored American,one of the first U.S. newspapers published and edited by African Americans. The cause for this jubilation was an unprecedented event. At a time when most black Americans had no legal rights, a group of captive Africans had challenged the U.S. government before the Supreme Court -- and won! Freedom's Sons is a tale of unbending courage and moral integrity in the face of incredible odds. It is the extraordinary true story of the only successful slave revolt in American history. In 1839, fifty-three Africans aboard the Cuban slave ship Amistad broke out of their chains and took over the ship. Attempting to return to Sierra Leone, they landed instead on the northeast coast of the United States, where they were captured and put on trial. A year and a half later, former president John Quincy Adams argued the Supreme Court case that ultimately set them free.

Author : Laura A. Macaluso
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781442253414

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Art of the Amistad and The Portrait of Cinqué by Laura A. Macaluso Pdf

The 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 : Bernice Kohn
Publisher : Dutton Juvenile
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1971-05-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0525255508

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Amistad Mutiny by Bernice Kohn Pdf

Author : Alexs D. Pate
Publisher : DreamWorks
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0451195167

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Amistad by Alexs D. Pate Pdf

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.