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Mutiny on the Amistad :The Saga of a Slave Revolt and its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy

Name: Mutiny on the Amistad
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Rating: 3.48 (152 reviews)
Author: Howard Jones
ISBN: 9780195038293

Howard Jones

3.48 ( 152 Ratings by Goodreads)

Mutiny on the Amistad :The Saga of a Slave Revolt and its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy

Howard Jones(Author)

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Published: 5 May, 1994

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Published for the first time in the UK to coincide with Steven Spielberg's forthcoming movie Amistad, Mutiny on the Amistad 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. Howard Jones describes how, in 1839, Joseph Cinqué led a revolt on the Spanish slave ship, the Amistad, in the Caribbean. Allowing only the captain and first mate to live in order to steer the ship back to Sierra Leone, the Africans were tricked and taken to New York. 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 colour. 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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Type	Book
ISBN13	9780195038293
ISBN10	0195038290
Number Of Pages	296
Item Weight	381 g
Product Dimensions	139 x 219 x 18 mm
Publisher / Reseller	Oxford University Press Inc
Format	paperback

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An important new account of this extraordinary episode in American history. * New York Times Book Review *
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 illuminates the approaching Civil War. * The National Review *
A nearly flawless historical study of an important episode in American diplomatic, legal, political, and ethnic history. * Journal of American Ethnic History *
A rousing and satisfying tale, and it is well worth hearing it again in this careful and thoughtful telling. * American Heritage *

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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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Mutiny on the Amistad :The Saga of a Slave Revolt and its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy

Howard Jones

3.48 ( 152 Ratings by Goodreads)