Amistad's Orphans
An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling
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Erschienen am 28. Januar 2015
376 Seiten
978-0-300-21043-9 (ISBN)
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Beschreibung
The lives of six African children, ages nine to sixteen, were forever altered by the revolt aboard the Cuban schooner La Amistad in 1839. Like their adult companions, all were captured in Africa and illegally sold as slaves. In this fascinating revisionist history, Benjamin N. Lawrance reconstructs six entwined stories and brings them to the forefront of the Amistad conflict. Through eyewitness testimonies, court records, and the children's own letters, Lawrance recounts how their lives were inextricably interwoven by the historic drama, and casts new light on illegal nineteenth-century transatlantic slave smuggling.
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Inhalt
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: The Orphans of La Amistad
- ONE: "Most Favourite Cargoes": African Child Enslavement in the Nineteenth Century
- TWO: The Origins of Amistad's Orphans
- THREE: The Enslavements of Amistad's Orphans
- FOUR: The Journeys of Amistad's Orphans
- FIVE: The Liberations of Amistad's Orphans
- SIX: The Return of Amistad's Orphans
- Epilogue: An Age of Child Enslavement
- Chronology
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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