Mutiny on the Amistad : : the Saga of a Slave Revolt and its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy
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Revised edition.
Includes index.
COMMUNITY REVIEWS
Dry book about the legal case
submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on July 21, 2018, 3:51pm
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.
PUBLISHED
New York : Oxford University Press, 1988, c1987.
Year Published: 1987
Description: ix, 271 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0195038290 :
SUBJECTS
Amistad (Schooner)
Slave insurrections.
Antislavery movements.