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Howard Jones

Mutiny on the Amistad

The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy

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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 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 t… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-028132-8
  • EAN: 9780190281328
  • Produktnummer: 18397857
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 2'441 KB
  • Abbildungen: 22 halftones, 1 map

Über den Autor


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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