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Slave Mutiny The Revolt on the Schooner Amistad by William A. Owens w/ dust jack
Slave Mutiny The Revolt on the Schooner Amistad by William A. Owens
Hard cover with dust jacket Dust jacket has damage
Copyright 1953
312 pages
CONTENTS
The Mysterious Schooner3
I African Slave Factory5
II The Middle Passage23
III Cuban Slave Mart38
IV "Kill the White Men-"53
V East by Day71
VI The Sun Against Us91
VII Land of the Free106
VIII Trial by Error125
IX The Village Green137
X Friends Storm Sent147
XI Men or Property159
XII Palaver at Hartford169
XIII New England Duress189
XIV Voice of the Tombs203
XV Don Escrilpulo214
XVI "Give Us Free"226
XVII Westville Waiting240
XVIII Old Man Eloquent247
XIX Resolution in Washington263
XX "From Greenland's Icy Mountains"280
XXI Merica Men291
XXII Africa's Golden Sand302
Afterword312
ILLUSTRATIONS
Cinque56
La Amistad: The unorthodox rigging was the work of the Africans57
New Haven scenes as they appeared to the Amistad Africans88
Pencil drawings of Amistad Africans by William H. Townsend (1822-1851)89
A long, low, mysterious schooner hovered off the shores of New Jersey and Long Island. American ships saw that it was manned by -black men, armed and menacing. Was it a pirate craft? Fear spread along the coast. Then came the news that off Cuba a shipload of slaves had seized the ship, killing its captain.
Zigzagging, the schooner finally anchored off Montauk. An American naval vessel captured her, and the slaves, with their leader Cinque, son of an African headman, were jailed in New Haven, charged with murder and piracy.
Now this true story of a piece of American history never before fully told turns from the excitement of mutiny at sea to the suspense of an intricate legal battle. The time was 1839, and the thunder of civil war rumbled on the horizon. Abolitionists sprang to the Africans' defense. American naval officers crassly claimed them for salvage. The Spanish government demanded them back. The issue came sharp: were these Africans property, or were they human beings?
The case went all the way to the U. S. Supreme Court, and there the defense was pleaded by the aged John Quincy Adams, persuaded to come forward and make his last great battle for freedom. President Van Buren threw his executive weight on the other side, and Adams's impassioned speech was called "the trial of one president by another."
The legal outcome, and the final irony of what happened to the Africans afterwards, are for the reader to seek out and relish.
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