{"product_id":"mutiny-on-the-amistad-howard-jones-9780195038293","title":"Mutiny on the Amistad","description":"This volume presents the first full-scale treatment of the only instance in history where African blacks, seized by slave dealers, won their freedom and returned home. Jones describes how, in 1839, Joseph Cinqué led a revolt on the Spanish slave ship, the \u003cem\u003eAmistad\u003c\/em\u003e, in the Caribbean. The seizure of the ship by an American naval vessel near Montauk, Long Island, the arrest of the Africans in Connecticut, and the Spanish protest against the violation of their property rights created an international controversy.\u003cbr\u003e The \u003cem\u003eAmistad\u003c\/em\u003e affair united Lewis Tappan and other abolitionists who put the \"law of nature\" on trial in the United States by their refusal to accept a legal system that claimed to dispense justice while permitting artificial distinctions based on race or color. The mutiny resulted in a trial before the U.S. Supreme Court that pitted former President John Quincy Adams against the federal government. Jones vividly recaptures this compelling drama--the most famous slavery case before Dred Scott--that climaxed in the court's ruling to free the captives and allow them to return to Africa.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Howard Jones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0195038290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195038293\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/20\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.64h x 5.48w x 0.72d","brand":"Howard Jones","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43992875237631,"sku":"9780195038293","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6b98adb3-8d9e-4410-9e70-c13e65819aca.jpg?v=1683321294","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mutiny-on-the-amistad-howard-jones-9780195038293","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}