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Amistad's Orphans: An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling

Amistad's Orphans: An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling

Hardcover

Black American History19th Century United States HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0300198450
ISBN13: 9780300198454
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Jan 27 2015
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
The lives of six African children, ages nine to sixteen, were forever altered by the revolt aboard the Cuban schooner La Amistad in 1839. Like their adult companions, all were captured in Africa and illegally sold as slaves. In this fascinating revisionist history, Benjamin N. Lawrance reconstructs six entwined stories and brings them to the forefront of the Amistad conflict. Through eyewitness testimonies, court records, and the children's own letters, Lawrance recounts how their lives were inextricably interwoven by the historic drama, and casts new light on illegal nineteenth-century transatlantic slave smuggling.

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