Ardency : a chronicle of the Amistad rebels; being an epic account of the capture of the Spanish schooner Amistad, by the Africans on board; their voyage and capture near Long Island, New York; with phrenological studies of several of the surviving Africans /
Young, Kevin.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf,
2011.
A poetic epic that tells the story of the slaves, most from Sierra Leone, who staged a mutiny, taking over the "Amistad" 1839, featuring the voices of the jailed rebels' African interpreter, the mutineers themselves in letters to their lawyer John Quincy Adams and others, and rebel leader Cinque.
"This is a Borzoi Book"--T.p. verso.
Book-keeping -- Buzzard. Exodus ; Covey ; Misericordia ; Cut-up ; Advent ; Questioning ; Friendship ; Sightings ; Washington ; Experiment ; Greeting ; Blackmarket ; Tank ; Eyetooth ; Findings ; Easter ; Maroon ; Broadway ; Calling ; Soundings ; Revelations -- Correspondance. New England primer ; Westville ; Speech ; New Haven ; Testimony ; Farmington ; Gospel ; Con. ; Scripture ; Boston, Mass. ; Sermon ; Gentleman ; Toast ; Freetown -- Witness: a libretto. Processional ; Passages ; Captivity ; Conversions ; Merica, a minstrel show ; Manumissions ; Benedictions -- After word, or, The mission & its fate. Wilson, logbook begun at sea, Westerly, off the Cape of Good Hope ; Steele, a last letter upon leaving Mende Land ; Raymond, diary of his final days with yellow fever ; Anon., sampler found at the abandoned mission, sewn in an unknown hand ; Thompson, progress report on the new mission, hereafter known as Mo Tappan ; Covey, deathbed confession, in delirium, written in dirt ; Sarah, letter from Oberlin College, Ohio, preparing to voyage to the mission.
A poetic epic that tells the story of the slaves, most from Sierra Leone, who staged a mutiny, taking over the "Amistad" 1839, featuring the voices of the jailed rebels' African interpreter, the mutineers themselves in letters to their lawyer John Quincy Adams and others, and rebel leader Cinque.
Amistad (Schooner)
Slaves
Slave insurrections
Antislavery movements