Rebellious Histories: The Amistad Slave Revolt and the Cultures of Late Twentieth-Century Black Transnationalism 1438439717, 9781438439716

From the early 1970s to the mid-1990s, playwrights, novelists, filmmakers, visual artists, and prison writers from Sierr

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Rebellious Histories: The Amistad Slave Revolt and the Cultures of Late Twentieth-Century Black Transnationalism
1438439717, 9781438439716

*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts written about the revolt on the ship *Includes excerpts from the lega

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In late October 1841, the Creole left Richmond with 137 slaves bound for New Orleans. It arrived five weeks later minus

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In late October 1841, the Creole left Richmond with 137 slaves bound for New Orleans. It arrived five weeks later minus

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In late October 1841, the Creole left Richmond with 137 slaves bound for New Orleans. It arrived five weeks later minus

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From the foreword: "1) Makes available the first ever English translation of the pioneering 1522 ordinances on Bla

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Studies of the Curse of Ham, the belief that the Bible consigned blacks to everlasting servitude, confuse and conflate t

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Transnationalism means many things to many people, from crossing physical borders to crossing intellectual ones. The Lim

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The Uses of Literature in Modern Japan explores the varying uses of literature in Japan from the late Meiji period to th

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A radical reinterpretation of "Attica," the revolutionary 1970s uprising that galvanized abolitionist movement

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