Amistad's orphans
Subtitle: an Atlantic story of children, slavery, and smuggling
By: Benjamin N. Lawrance
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780300198454
Subjects: Slave trade; Child slaves; Amistad (Schooner); Orphans; History; Children; Human smuggling
Description: "The story of six children who were stolen from their homes in Africa and sold into slavery across the Atlantic in 1839. They were transported by ship from West Africa to Cuba to the United States, and after protracted legal struggles they returned to Africa to restart their lives"--

"The lives of six African children, ages nine to sixteen, were forever altered by the revolt aboard the Cuban schooner La Amistad in 1839. Like their adult companions, all were captured in Africa and illegally sold as slaves. In this fascinating revisionist history, Benjamin N. Lawrance reconstructs six entwined stories and brings them to the forefront of the Amistad conflict. Through eyewitness testimonies, court records, and the children's own letters, Lawrance recounts how their lives were inextricably interwoven by the historic drama, and casts new light on illegal nineteenth-century transatlantic slave smuggling"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Orphans of La Amistad; title: "Most Favourite Cargoes": African child enslavement in the nineteenth century; title: The Origins of Amistad's Orphans; title: The Enslavements of Amistad's Orphans; title: The Journeys of Amistad's Orphans; title: The Liberations of Amistad's Orphans; title: The Return of Amistad's Orphans; title: Epilogue: An age of child enslavement.