Mutiny on the Amistad : the saga of a slave revolt and its impact on American abolition, law, and diplomacy

Author(s)

• Jones, Howard

Bibliographic Information

Mutiny on the Amistad : the saga of a slave revolt and its impact on American abolition, law, and diplomacy

Howard Jones

Oxford University Press, 1987

• : pbk

Note

Bibliography: p. 221-259

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book is the first full-scale treatment of the only instance in history in which African blacks, seized by slave dealers, won their freedom and returned home - the mutiny led by Joseph Cinque, a black African, in 1839 aboard the Spanish slave-ship AMISTAD in the Caribbean.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA03540540
• ISBN:
  • 0195038282
  • 0195038290
• LCCN: 86008692
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 271 p., [12] p. of plates
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : E447
  • DC19 : 326/.0973
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Slavery -- United States -- Insurrections, etc
  • LCSH : Amistad (Schooner)
  • LCSH : Slavery -- United States -- Anti-slavery movements