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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 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.
This volume presents the first full-scale treatment of the only instance in history where African blacks, seized by slave dealers, won their freedom.
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Alex Hobbs
reviewed Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law and Diplomacy on July 14, 2018
Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law and Diplomacy
What is good about this book is that it lays out a little known (until they turned it into a movie) event in US history, which is the only time enslaved African took over a slaving vessel, won their freedom, and were able to return home. It is critical that such history, in all its detail, be remembered, understood, and honored.
But as someone who does not care about the minutiae of legal matters, this book was exhausting. It reports on every (and I mean EVERY) twist and turn, every opinion, every document filed, every public opinion voiced, every lawyer or politician who got involved, every judge who made a minor or major decision that shifted anything. It was as dry as anything I have ever read, and I have never in my life had to work so hard to make myself finish a book.
The one thing that this book was hardly about was the Africans. They are only barely present, which is a disappointment. It truly is a book about the legal case to free them.
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