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The slave revolt on the ship Amistad in 1839 was a crucial event in the early abolitionist movement in the United States. When the vessel arrived in America, a fierce debate began about whether the Africans were free or enslaved and whether they should be allowed to return to Africa. The argument became a legal battle that eventually ended up in the US Supreme Court, with former president John Quincy Adams representing the Africans.
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Examines the many times enslaved people--on large plantations and small farms in the North as well as the South--risked their lives to fight for their freedom and details the often brutal tactics used by owners and overseers to put down slave rebellions and revolts.
11) Amistad: a novel
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Based on the true story of the 1839 mutuny on board the Spanish slave ship, Amistad.
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"In this illuminating text, the origins of the slave trade in Africa and the effects of the practice of slavery on the political and economic history of the United States are explored. King Cotton, the slave hierarchy on southern plantations, the relationship of the slaveholders and slaves, the slave codes that regulated the absolute control of slaves, the ensuing slave rebellions, and the abolitionist movement and those who spoke out against the...
15) The Amistad
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Chronicles the history of events surrounding the revolt of the African captives being transported from Havana to Cuba aboard the "Amistad" in 1839. Includes a time line, list of facts, and other resources.
17) Slave rebellions
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Examines the history of slave rebellions in the United States from 1619 to the end of the Civil War, highlighting such insurrections as Nat Turner's rebellion and the Amistad rebellion.
20) Slave rebellions
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Throughout the centuries of slavery, since the very first Africans came to the New World in the early 1500s, there was a will to rebel. Made to suffer hard labor, disease, split families, and tyranny, Africans faced the reality of what would be passed down to their children. Whether intentionally working slower, stealing, escaping, or actually staging violent slave rebellions, slaves continued to resist the hold owners placed on them throughout slavery's...