Staging The Amistad

Author : Charlie Haffner
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821446681
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Staging the Amistad written by Charlie Haffner and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staging the Amistad collects in print for the first time plays about the Amistad slave revolt by three of Sierra Leone’s most influential playwrights of the latter decades of the twentieth century: Charlie Haffner, Yulisa Amadu “Pat” Maddy, and Raymond E. D. de’Souza George. Until the late 1980s, when the first of these plays was performed, the 1839 shipboard slave rebellion and the return of its victors to their homes in what is modern-day Sierra Leone had been an unrecognized chapter in the country’s history. The plays recast the tale of heroism, survival, and resistance to tyranny as a distinctly Sierra Leonean story, emphasizing the agency of its African protagonists. For this reason, Haffner, Maddy, and de’Souza George counterbalance the better-known American representations of the rebellion, which center on American characters and American political and cultural concerns. The first public performances of these plays constituted a watershed moment. Written and staged immediately before and after the start of Sierra Leone’s decade-long conflict, they brought the Amistad rebellion to public consciousness. Furthermore, their turn to a uniquely Sierra Leonean history of heroic resistance to tyranny highlights the persistent faith in nation-state nationalism and the dreams of decolonization.

Author : Marcus Rediker
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014312398X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Amistad Rebellion written by Marcus Rediker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vividly drawn . . . this stunning book honors the achievement of the captive Africans who fought for—and won—their freedom.”—The Philadelphia Tribune A unique account of the most successful slave rebellion in American history, now updated with a new epilogue—from the award-winning author of The Slave Ship In this powerful and highly original account, Marcus Rediker reclaims the Amistad rebellion for its true proponents: the enslaved Africans who risked death to stake a claim for freedom. Using newly discovered evidence and featuring vividly drawn portraits of the rebels, their captors, and their abolitionist allies, Rediker reframes the story to show how a small group of courageous men fought and won an epic battle against Spanish and American slaveholders and their governments. The successful Amistad rebellion changed the very nature of the struggle against slavery. As a handful of self-emancipated Africans steered their own course for freedom, they opened a way for millions to follow. This edition includes a new epilogue about the author's trip to Sierra Leona to search for Lomboko, the slave-trading factory where the Amistad Africans were incarcerated, and other relics and connections to the Amistad rebellion, especially living local memory of the uprising and the people who made it.

Author : Iyunolu Folayan Osagie
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820324655
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Amistad Revolt written by Iyunolu Folayan Osagie and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From journalism and lectures to drama, visual art, and the Spielberg film, this study ranges across the varied cultural reactions--in America and Sierra Leone--engendered by the 1839 Amistad slave ship revolt. Iyunolu Folayan Osagie is a native of Sierra Leone, from where the Amistad's cargo of slaves originated. She digs deeply into the Amistad story to show the historical and contemporary relevance of the incident and its subsequent trials. At the same time, she shows how the incident has contributed to the construction of national and cultural identity both in Africa and the African diasporo in America--though in intriguingly different ways. This pioneering work of comparative African and American cultural criticism shows how creative arts have both confirmed and fostered the significance of the Amistad revolt in contemporary racial discourse and in the collective memories of both countries.

Author : Suzanne Freedman
Publisher : Enslow Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780766013377
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book United States V. Amistad written by Suzanne Freedman and published by Enslow Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- A library of the most important United States Supreme Court cases.-- Examines the issues leading up to the case, the people involved in the case, and the present-day effects of the Court's decision.

Author : Howard Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190281324
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mutiny on the Amistad written by Howard Jones and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-20 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume 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. Jones describes how, in 1839, Joseph Cinqué led a revolt on the Spanish slave ship, the Amistad, in the Caribbean. 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 color. 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.

Author : Barbara Chase-Riboud
Publisher : William Morrow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Echo of Lions written by Barbara Chase-Riboud and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1989 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epic saga of slavery in America based on the controversial historical figure - Joseph Cinque.

Author : David Hulm
Publisher : Rosen Young Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780823940134
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book United States V. the Amistad written by David Hulm and published by Rosen Young Adult. This book was released on 2004 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the Supreme Court's ruling of a case that put Africans on trial for staging a revolt aboard a slave ship, discussing the results and repercussions of the case.

Author : Pat McKissack
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 044843900X
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amistad written by Pat McKissack and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the historical account of the "Amistad" and the freeing of Africans who had been kidnapped in the 1830s.

Author : Kevin Young
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0375711619
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ardency written by Kevin Young and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, a haunting chorus of voices that tells the story of the captivity, education, language, hopes, dreams, and fight for freedom, of the African Americans abducted in the Amistad rebellion. Based on the 1840 mutiny on board the slave ship Amistad, Ardency begins with "Buzzard," a sequence of poems told in the voice of the interpreter for the captive rebels, who were jailed in New Haven. In "Correspondence," we encounter the remarkable letters to John Quincy Adams and others that the captives wrote from jail. The book culminates in "Witness," a libretto chanted by Cinque, the rebel leader, who yearns for his family and freedom while eloquently evoking the Amistads' conversion and life in America. As Young conjures this array of characters, interweaving the liberation cry of Negro spirituals and the indoctrinating wordplay of American primers, he delivers his signature songlike immediacy at the service of an epic built on the ironies, violence, and virtues of American history.

Author : Walter Dean Myers
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062112740
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Juba! written by Walter Dean Myers and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New York Times bestselling author Walter Dean Myers's last novel, he delivers a gripping story based on the life of a real dancer known as Master Juba, who lived in the nineteenth century. This engaging historical novel is based on the true story of the meteoric rise of an immensely talented young black dancer, William Henry Lane, who influenced today's tap, jazz, and step dancing. With meticulous and intensive research, Walter Dean Myers has brought to life Juba's story. The novel includes photographs, maps, and other images from Juba's time and an afterword from Walter Dean Myers's wife about the writing process of Juba!