Ardency A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels

Name: Ardency A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels
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ISBN: 9780307267641

ISBN-10: 0307267644

ISBN-13: 9780307267641

Edition: 2011

Authors: Kevin Young

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A chorus of voices tells the story of the Africans who mutinied on board the slave shipAmistad.Written over twenty years, this poetic epic-part libretto, part captivity epistle-makes the past present, and even its sorrows sing. In "Buzzard," the opening section, we hear from the African interpreter for the rebels, mostly from Sierra Leone, who were jailed in New Haven. In "Correspondance," we encounter the remarkable letters to John Quincy Adams and others that the captives wrote from jail, where they were taught English and converted to Christianity. In lines profound and pointed, the men demand their freedom in their newfound tongue: "All we want is make us free." The book culminates in…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/25/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.40" long x 1.15" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Book-Keeping


Buzzard.


Exodus


Covey


Misericordia


Cut-Up


Advent


Questioning


Friendship


Sightings


Washington


Experiment


Greeting


Blackmarket


Tank


Eyetooth


Findings


Easter


Maroon


Broadway


Calling


Soundings


Revelations


Correspondance.


New England Primer


Westville


Speech


New Haven


Testimony


Farmington


Gospel


Con


Scripture


Boston, Mass


Sermon


Gentleman


Toast


Freetown


Witness. A Libretto



Processional


Choir (Evening)



Passages


Choir (Twilight)



Captivity


Choir (Dusk)



Conversions


Choir (Midnight)



Merica, a minstrel show


Choir (Dark)



Manumissions


Choir (Dawn)



Benedictions


Choir (Morning)


After Word; or, The Mission & Its Fate.


Logbook Begun at Sea, Westerly, Off the Cape of Good Hope



A Last Letter upon Leaving Mende Land



Diary of His Final Days with Yellow Fever



Sampler Found at the Abandoned Mission, Sewn in an Unknown Hand



Progress Report on the New Mission, Hereafter Known as Mo Tappan



Deathbed Confession, in Delirium, Written in Dirt



Letter from Oberlin College, Ohio, Preparing to Voyage to the Mission



Notes