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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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Amistad and the Lessons of History
Journal of Black Studies, 1999Director Steven Spielberg's Amistad is a dramatic portrayal of a well-documented but little-known 19th-century slave revolt and its repercussions. The year was 1839. A young man, called Sengbe Pieh, from the Mende ethnic group of Sierra Leone was captured as a slave and, along with other men, women, and children, transported across the Atlantic to Cuba
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