Ardency : a chronicle of the Amistad rebels : being an epic account of the capture of the Spanish schooner Amistad, by the Africans on board : their voyage and capture near Long Island, New York : with phrenological studies of several of the surviving Africans /

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 le...

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