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Black Odyssey: The Case of the Slave Ship `Amistad'

By: Cable, Mary

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics): December 1977

Seller ID: 292919

ISBN: 0140046941

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In August of 1839, what appeared to be a listless "pirate ship", unidentified by any flag, was spotted off the North Atlantic coast of the United States. On board were thirty barely clad black men, all of whom wore cutlasses, and two white men -- Spanish slave owners with an incredible story to tell. A month earlier, the Amistad, as the ship was known, had set sail from Havana with a valuable cargo of slaves and $40,000 worth of gold doubloons -- and in a matter of days the captain and the cook were dead, and the ship was in the control of the slaves.

Thus began "the Amistad affair", which, ...
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