Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels by Kevin Young

Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels



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Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels Kevin Young
Page: 272
ISBN: 9780307267641
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Now in paperback, a haunting chorus of voices that tells the story of the captivity, education, language, hopes, dreams, and fight for freedom, of the African Americans abducted in the Amistad rebellion. Based on the 1840 mutiny on board the slave ship Amistad, Ardency begins with "Buzzard," a sequence of poems told in the voice of the interpreter for the captive rebels, who were jailed in New Haven. In "Correspondence," we encounter the remarkable letters to John Quincy Adams and others that the captives wrote from jail. The book culminates in "Witness," a libretto chanted by Cinque, the rebel leader, who yearns for his family and freedom while eloquently evoking the Amistads' conversion... MORE EBOOKS:
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