Mutiny on the Amistad: The Events that Inspired the Major Motion Picture: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy Reissue Edition

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Mutiny on the Amistad: The Events that Inspired the Major Motion Picture: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy Reissue Edition

Author(s): Howard Jones (Author)

  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publication Date: 20 Nov. 1997
  • Edition: Reissue
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 300 pages
  • ISBN-10: 9780195038293
  • ISBN-13: 9780195038293

Book Description

Tells the story Joseph Cinque and the other Black Africans who took over the Spanish slave ship on which they were imprisoned, and examines what issues were raised when they pled their case in U.S. courts

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A nearly flawless historical study of an important episode in American diplomatic, legal, political, and ethnic history; Mutiny on the Amistad raises important questions in all of these fields and is highly recommended reading."--Journal of American Ethnic History

"Mutiny on the Amistad is based on thorough research and provides excellent and detailed coverage of its subject. It makes important contributions both to the history of slavery and to abolition, especially on the legal aspects of each."--Journal of Southern History

"[A] well-documented study of the Amistad affair....Lively."--The New York Review of Books

"An analysis of an important moment in American history that casts a light upon politics and society during the preceding half-century, back to the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, and similarly illumines the approaching Civil War."--The National Review

"An impressive piece of work....A well organized book, handsomely illustrated, generously documented....Valuable and illuminating."--Civil War History

"A rousing and satisfying tale, and it is well worth hearing it again in this careful and thoughtful telling."--American Heritage

"An important new account of this extraordinary episode in American history."--New York Times Book Review

"Jones handles the legal ramifications of the case in great detail....The themes are well delieated and the prose is easily readable."--Daily News, Bowling Green, Kentucky

"An excellent rendering of an important and liberating event in African American history. This should be mandatory reading on all history courses."--James Rogers, California State University at Fresno

Review

"An important new account of this extraordinary episode in American history."--New York Times Book Review

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