二手書博民逛書店Mutiny罕見on the Amistad: The Events that Inspired the Major Motion Picture-阿米斯塔德的兵變：主要電影的靈感來源Y414958 Howard Jones  Pap... Oxford University... ISBN:9780195038293 出版1997

作 者：Howard Jones  Pap...

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Description Published for the first time in the UK to coincide with Steven Spielberg's forthcoming movie Amistad, Mutiny on the Amistad presents the first full-scale treatment of the only instance in history where African blacks, seized by slave dealers, won their freedom and returned home. Howard Jones describes how, in 1839, Joseph Cinque led a revolt on the Spanish slave ship, the Amistad, in the Caribbean. Allowing only the captain and first mate to live in order to steer the ship back to Sierra Leone, the Africans were tricked and taken to New York. The seizure of the ship by an American naval vessel near Montauk, Long Island, the arrest of the Africans in Connecticut, and the Spanish protest against the violation of their property rights created an international controversy. The Amistad affair united Lewis Tappan and other abolitionists who put the `law of nature' on trial in the United States by their refusal to accept a legal system that claimed to dispense justice while permitting artificial distinctions based on race or colour. The mutiny resulted in a trial before the U.S. Supreme Court that pitted former President John Quincy Adams against the federal government. Jones vividly recaptures this compelling drama-the most famous slavery case before Dred Scott-that climaxed in the court's ruling to free the captives and allow them to return to Africa.

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