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Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
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. This remarkable...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1988
Description
Studies the 1839 slave revolt known as the Amistad mutiny in which a group of Africans, led by Joseph Cinque, overpowered their Spanish captors in the Caribbean, and after sailing into American waters were apprehended by a naval vessel, tried before the U.S. Supreme Court, and allowed to return to Africa.
Author
Series
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Description
In a blind rage, King James, ex-slave and now Marlowe's comrade in arms, slaughters the crew of a slave ship and makes himself the most wanted man in Virginia. The governor gives Marlowe a choice: Hunt James down and bring him back to hang or lose everything Marlowe has built for himself and his wife, Elizabeth. Marlowe sets out in pursuit of the ex-slave turned pirate, struggling to maintain control over his crew -- rough privateers who care only...
6) Black rain
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
In a darkly warped near future, lucrative disease cures are brokered on Wall Street's Genetic Stock Exchange. And the hottest consumer products are artificially synthesized humans that serve as everything from domestic slaves to combatants in savage gladiatorial games. For Jack Saxton, the young heir to genetic design powerhouse Genico Industries, these Synthates are just a fact of life...until the murder of a high-profile genetic scientist leads...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
The 1791 revolt against the French in Haiti through the eyes of the parties in the conflict: mulattos, blacks and whites. The protagonists include its tragic leader, the aristocratic Toussaint L'Ouverture who refused to declare independence from France. A tale of burning plantations, massacres and Byzantine politics.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019, 2017
Description
In the three centuries following Columbus's landfall in the Americas, slavery became a critical institution across swathes of both North and South America. It saw twelve million Africans forced onto slave ships, and had seismic consequences for Africa while leading to the transformation of the Americas and to the material enrichment of the Western world. It was also largely unquestioned. Yet within a mere seventy-five years, slavery had vanished from...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Formats
Description
Documents an early nineteenth-century event that inspired Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno, " tracing the cultural, economic, and religious clash that occurred aboard a distressed Spanish ship of West African pirates.
One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal hunter, climbed aboard a distressed Spanish ship carrying scores of West Africans who appeared to be slaves. They weren't. Having...
13) Amistad
Author
Publisher
Marlowe & Co
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
A novel on an African-American hero. In 1839 Joseph Cinque, also known as Singbe, leads a rising of African slaves on a Spanish slave ship. They kill most of the crew and order the navigator to steer for Africa, but he steers in the opposite direction and they are captured by the Americans. Abolitionists take up their cause, the Supreme Court rules they are free men and Cinque returns home covered in glory. A first novel.
14) Amistad
Publisher
DreamWorks
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board the slave ship Amistad bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
15) Shimmer
Author
Series
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Riley, dead at age twelve and now a Soul Catcher, works with her teacher Bodhi to help Rebecca, the daughter of a former plantation owner who, furious about being murdered during a 1733 slave revolt, is keeping those who died with her from crossing over.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
"A chilling and suspenseful account [of] the culmination of a signal episode in the history of American race relations." - Adam Goodheart, The New York Times Book Review
"A crisp, confident writer, Rasmussen tells this story with verve." - John Stauffer, The Wall Street Journal
"An important book. . .This tale deserves to be much better known, as does the larger story of slave resistance. American Uprising represents a signal achievement." - The...
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