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Mutiny on the Amistad : the saga of a slave revolt and its impact on American abolition, law, and diplomacy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Howard, 1940- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Amistad (Ship).
- Slave rebellions--United States.
- Slave rebellions.
- Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.
- Antislavery movements.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 271 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) illustrations, map, portraits
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 1839, Joseph Cinqué led a revolt on the Spanish slave ship, but was tricked and taken to New York. Jones vividly recaptures the compelling drama of the most famous slavery case in US history - one which climaxed in a ruling to free the captives.
- Contents:
- The mutiny
- Abolitionists and "This Matter of Color"
- The Politics of Justice
- "The Inherent Property of Liberty"
- "A National Matter"
- "Neither Slave . . . "
- " . . . Nor Free"
- The Politics of Democracy
- "Oh How Shall I Do Justice . . . ?"
- "The Eternal Principles of Justice"
- In Perspective.
- Notes:
- Film tie-in.
- Originally published: 1987.
- Previously issued in print: 1997.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-260) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-771478-1
- 0-19-028132-4
- 1-282-38429-5
- 9786612384295
- 0-19-802088-0
- OCLC:
- 958507905
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