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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007
The improbable voyage of the schooner Amistad and the court proceedings and diplomatic maneuverings that resulted from that voyage form one of the most significant stories of the nineteenth century. When Steven Spielberg chose the Amistad case as the subject of his 1997 feature film, he finally brought it the attention the case had long deserved, but ...
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The improbable voyage of the schooner Amistad and the court proceedings and diplomatic maneuverings that resulted from that voyage form one of the most significant stories of the nineteenth century. When Steven Spielberg chose the Amistad case as the subject of his 1997 feature film, he finally brought it the attention the case had long deserved, but ...
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2016
This chapter discusses the Amistad case as it went through US federal courts. The case eventually landed at the Supreme Court where the Africans who had mutinied and commandeered the ship were granted freedom and permitted to return to Sierra Leone. The Amistad case is one of the most important cases to undermine the institution of slavery in the US ...
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This chapter discusses the Amistad case as it went through US federal courts. The case eventually landed at the Supreme Court where the Africans who had mutinied and commandeered the ship were granted freedom and permitted to return to Sierra Leone. The Amistad case is one of the most important cases to undermine the institution of slavery in the US ...
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1997
Abstract 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 Cinqu'e led a revolt on the Spanish slave ship, the Amistad, in the Caribbean.
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Abstract 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 Cinqu'e led a revolt on the Spanish slave ship, the Amistad, in the Caribbean.
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