Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy

by Howard Jones

Book Overview

This book is the first full-scale treatment of the only instance in history in which African blacks, seized by slave dealers, won their freedom and returned home.
In 1839, Joseph Cinque led other blacks in a revolt on the Spanish slave ship Amistad in the Caribbean. They steered the ship northward to Montauk, Long Island, where it was seized by an American naval vessel. With the Africans jailed in Connecticut and the Spaniards claiming violoation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195038282
• ISBN13: 9780195038286
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Exceptional historical account of the Amistad.

Mutiny on the Amistad by Dr. Howard Jones is an exceptional piece of historical research. For the reader who wishes to read an exceptional historical treatise buy the book. One fully comprehends the the roles of Spain, England, the United States and the cruelty of the slave trade. After reading this book one can comprehend how race initially was and still is a significant factor in the cultural life and politics of the United States. Dr. Jones is to be congratulated for a balance historical presentation and insightful view of cultural history as well...if you are seriously interested in the events of the Amistad and the world that created this incident, you will greatly appreciate Dr. Jones' scholarship. I am grateful that a serious historian has given us such a fine account of the Amistad.

Jones is very enlightening and amusing

I had a chance to meet Dr. Jones this past January and read his book. He teaches us in his superb telling of this story that sometimes Historians are couragous for telling parts of history the mainstream would rather forget.

A great novel with some little known history.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. I like to read historically based fiction, a good author provides an entertaining story around historic facts, therefore getting the best of both worlds. This story was told in an entertaining manner and I learned about a bit of history that I was previously unaware of. Now I'm ready to see the movie and nonfiction recount of events that occurred.

FANTASTIC!

Howard Jones has brought one of America's most important (and often ignored until recently) cases to light. This book is a must read for anyone interested in the subject.

I feel that Jones captured the humanitarian side of the case

I think that the book includes many facts, but it is very long, and parts were very boring.