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The Amistad revolt : memory, slavery, and the politics of identity in the United States and Sierra Leone / Iyunolu Folayan Osagie.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Osagie, Iyunolu Folayan, 1960-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Amistad (Schooner).
- Slave rebellions--United States.
- Slave rebellions.
- African Americans--Race identity.
- African Americans.
- Group identity--Political aspects--United States.
- Group identity.
- Memory--Social aspects--United States.
- Memory.
- Memory--Social aspects--Sierra Leone.
- Freed persons--Sierra Leone--History--19th century--Case studies.
- Freed persons.
- Group identity--Political aspects--Sierra Leone.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (205 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- From journalism and lectures to drama, visual art, and the Spielberg film, this study ranges across the varied cultural reactions engendered by the 1839 Amistad slave ship revolt. Osagie, a native of Sierra Leone, digs deeply into the Amistad story to show the historical and contemporary relevance of the incident and its subsequent trials.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART ONE. REMEMBERING THE PAST
- Chapter One. The Amistad Story in the American Context
- Chapter Two. Slave Revolts and the Production of Identity
- Chapter Three. The Amistad Returnees and the Mende Mission
- PART TWO. REINVENTING THE PRESENT
- Chapter Four. Sculpting History: African American Burdens of Memory
- Chapter Five. National Identity: The Dramatic Return of Memory in Sierra Leone
- Chapter Six. Hollywood Images, African Memories: Spielberg's Amistad and Sierra Leone Culture and Politics
- Afterword
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-174) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612726026
- 9781282726024
- 1282726021
- 9780820327259
- 0820327255
- OCLC:
- 656841483
- Publisher Number:
- heb40350 hdl
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