![]() | The Amistad Revolt: Memory, Slavery, and the Politics of Identity in the United States and Sierra Leone Subjects: Amistad (Schooner); Slave insurrections -- United States; African Americans -- Race identity; Group identity -- Political aspects -- United States; Memory -- Social aspects -- United States; Memory -- Social aspects -- Sierra Leone; Freedmen -- Sierra Leo; From journalism and lectures to drama, visual art, and the Spielberg film, this study ranges across the varied cultural reactions--in America and Sierra Leone--engendered by the 1839 Amistad slave ship revolt. IYUNOLU FOLAYAN OSAGIE is an associate professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. |
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