Title: The Amistad revolt
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.
Subjects: Ethnic identity, Social aspects of Memory, Amistad (Schooner), Sierra Leone, Afro-Americans, Case studies, Group identity, Freedmen, Memory, Slave insurrections, Political aspects of Group identity, History, Race identity, African Americans, Aspect social, Amistad, Mémoire collective, Amistad (Ship), Social aspects, Mouvements antiesclavagistes, Révoltes d'esclaves, Political aspects, Afrikaner, Sklavenaufstand, Amistad, Mutinerie de l' (1839), Slave rebellions, united states, African americans, race identity, Memory, physiological aspects, Freed persons, African americans, history, Slave trade, Slave insurrections, united states
Places: Sierra Leone, United States
Time periods: 19th century