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Mutiny on the Amistad Paperback - 1997

by Howard Jones

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Reissued to coincide with Steven Spielberg's upcoming motion picture "Amistad", this true saga of a slave revolt and its impact on American abolition, law, and diplomacy is based on thorough research and provides excellent and detailed coverage of its subject. "A rousing and satisfying tale".--"American Heritage". Photos.

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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 Cinqu 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.

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In early April 1839 the Portuguese slave merchants at Lomboko, on the west coast of Africa, were loading their human cargo onto the Tecora, in preparation for the long Middle Passage to Cuba.

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  • Title Mutiny on the Amistad
  • Author Howard Jones
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Revised Edition
  • Pages 296
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, New York
  • Publication date 1997-11-20
  • ISBN 9780195038293 / 0195038290
  • Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.64 x 5.48 x 0.72 in (21.95 x 13.92 x 1.83 cm)
  • Reading level 1430
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Category History - U.S.
  • Library of Congress subjects Antislavery movements - United States, Amistad (Schooner)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.049

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Howard Jones is Professor of History at the University of Alabama and author of The Course of American Diplomacy and To the Webster-Ashburton Treaty.
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