The Amistad revolt
Subtitle: memory, slavery, and the politics of identity in the United States and Sierra Leone
By: Iyunolu Folayan Osagie.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Amistad (Schooner); Slave insurrections -- United States; Afro-Americans -- Ethnic identity; Group identity -- Political aspects -- United States; Memory -- Social aspects -- United States; Memory -- Social aspects -- Sierra Leone; Freedmen -- Sierra Leone -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies; Group identity -- Political aspects -- Sierra Leone
Genres: Case studies.
Description: "The story of the 1839 revolt on the Amistad slave ship gained new prominence with Steven Spielberg's 1997 film, which helped make the American public more aware of how the history of slavery has defined racism in the United States. As Iyunolu Folayan Osagie shows, the perspective for someone born in Sierra Leone is markedly different.

Osagie digs deeply into the story to show the historical and contemporary relevance of the incident and its subsequent trials and how they together contributed to the construction of identity in both Africa and the United States."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-174) and index.