The Amistad case raised critical issues of law and justice. The central issue raised by the case was whether enslaved people had the right to rise up against their captors in rebellion. The book recounts how the vested slave interests of Europeans, Africans and Arabs came under direct challenge from the organized efforts of these blacks and their friends and allies in society, church and government. Together these people combined in a campaign to win wider support for abolition. The Gilder Lehrman Center is pleased to announce the Slavery, Abolition, and Resistance Fellowship Program.
Scholars are welcome to apply in one of two categories.
Fellows will be expected to participate in the intellectual life of the GLC and the larger Yale community, and to acknowledge the support of the GLC and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies in publications and lectures that stem from research conducted during the fellowship term.