Amistad's Orphans: An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling by Lawrance, Benjamin Nicholas

Amistad's Orphans: An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300198454)

Vendor: Benjamin Nicholas Lawrance
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Format: Hardcover
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Amistad's Orphans: An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling by Lawrance, Benjamin Nicholas

Amistad's Orphans: An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling

$94.00
Amistad's Orphans: An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling by Lawrance, Benjamin Nicholas

Amistad's Orphans: An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling

$94.00
Format: Hardcover
Description
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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.

Author: Benjamin Nicholas Lawrance
ISBN-10: 0300198450
ISBN-13: 9780300198454
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/27/2015
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/01/2014 pg. 98
Choice 06/01/2015
By Benjamin Nicholas Lawrance
By Benjamin Nicholas Lawrance
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Benjamin N. Lawrance is the Hon. Barber B. Conable Jr. Endowed Chair in International Studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

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