Ardency
Subtitle: a chronicle of the Amistad rebels
By: by Kevin Lowell Young
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780307267641
Description: 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.