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The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom

byMarcus Rediker

Marcus Rediker uses The Amistad Rebellion to investigate an Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom through a carefully framed historical account. By tracing causes alongside consequences, the narrative gives readers both a grounded account and a route into the connected fields of history and social science. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. Readers finish with a sharper understanding of the subject and why its consequences still deserve attention.

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

Publication date

2013

Format

Print edition

Pages

336

ISBN

9780143123989