Amistad

Name: Amistad
Brand: Allison & Busby
SKU: 9780749015978
Price: 1600 KES
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ISBN: 9780749015978

by David Pesci

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0749015977

ISBN-13 9780749015978

Publisher Allison & Busby

Imprint Allison & Busby

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Apr 17th, 2014

Print length 320 Pages

Weight 244 grams

Dimensions 19.70 x 13.10 x 2.20 cms

Product Classification: True stories True stories / true accounts of events Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general Slavery & abolition of slavery Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery

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The story of one of America's first civil rights battles. In 1839 fifty-three African slaves staged a bloody mutiny on board the Amistad, a Spanish slaver from Cuba. But their success was short-lived as the vessel was intercepted by the American navy, towed to New London Connecticut, where the slaves were held for deportation.

THE GRIPPING NOVEL BASED ON A TRUE STORY OF SLAVERYIn 1839, fifty-three African slaves staged a bloody mutiny on board the Amistad, a Spanish slave ship from Cuba. Their success was short-lived as the slaver was intercepted by the American Navy and towed to Connecticut where the slaves were held for deportation. But instead of sending them back to Cuba, the fledgling Abolitionist movement forced a series of trials, culminating in their defence in the Supreme Court by former President John Quincy Adams. This powerful dramatisation of one of America''s first battles for civil rights brings flesh, bone and emotion to what has been little more than a footnote in history. Torn from their homes, sold into slavery and faced with a terrible future, this moving novel evokes the fight, courage and hope of a people determined to be free.

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