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Amistad's orphans : an Atlantic story of children, slavery, and smuggling /

The lives of six African children, ages nine to sixteen, were forever altered by the revolt aboard the Cuban schooner La Amistad in 1839. Like their adult companions, all were captured in Africa and illegally sold as slaves. In this fascinating revisionist history, Benjamin N. Lawrance reconstructs...

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Main Author: Lawrance, Benjamin N. (Benjamin Nicholas) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Amistad (Schooner)
Child slaves > History > 19th century.
Children > Africa > History > 19th century.
Orphans > Africa > History > 19th century.
Slave trade > Africa > History > 19th century.
Slave trade > America > History > 19th century.
Human smuggling > Africa > History > 19th century.
Human smuggling > America > History > 19th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century.

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