Race on Trial
Subtitle: Law and Justice in American History (Viewpoints on American Culture)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: August 9, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780195122800
First sentence: The U.S. Supreme Court's March 1841 decision to free the black captives of the Amistad marks the only instance in history in which captured Africans brought to New World won their freedom and returned to their homeland.