Research Catalog
Amistad
- Title
- Amistad / David Pesci.
- Author
- Pesci, David.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Marlowe and Co., [1997], ©1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PS3566.E736 A65 1997 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 292 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- Amistad is the powerfully re-imagined history of one of the country's first battles for civil rights. In 1839 fifty-three enslaved Africans, led by a Mende rice farmer named Singbe-Pieh, staged a bloody rebellion on board the Amistad, a Spanish slaver from Cuba. The Amistad was intercepted by U.S. navy officers and towed to port in New London, Connecticut where the Africans were held for trial in New Haven.
- Led by President Van Buren, the pro-slavery American government maintained that the Africans were Spanish property and should by returned to Havana to be tried for murder, but members of the fledgling abolitionist movement forced a series of trials to win their freedom, culminating at the Supreme Court, where the Amistads were defended by former President John Quincy Adams.
- Subject
- ISBN
- 156924748X
- LCCN
- 96054050
- OCLC
- 36159570
- ocm36159570
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries