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Mutiny on the Amistad
Language: en
Pages: 409
Authors: Howard Jones
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-11-20 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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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 returne
Black Mutiny
Language: en
Pages: 372
Authors: William A. Owens
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Black Classic Press

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"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
United States V. Amistad
Language: en
Pages: 150
Authors: Susan Dudley Gold
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Marshall Cavendish

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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 fr
The Amistad Rebellion
Language: en
Pages: 319
Authors: Marcus Rediker
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-26 - Publisher: Penguin

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"Vividly drawn . . . this stunning book honors the achievement of the captive Africans who fought for—and won—their freedom.”—The Philadelphia Tribune A
Ardency
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: Kevin Young
Categories: American poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: Knopf

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A poetic epic chronicles the story of the Africans who mutinied on board the slave ship Amistad through different voices, from an interpreter for the rebels to