{"product_id":"black-schooner-rebellion-on-the-amistad","title":"Black Schooner: Rebellion on the Amistad","description":"\u003cb\u003eA stunning graphic history of how enslaved Africans on board the \u003ci\u003eAmistad\u003c\/i\u003e rebelled and captured the slave ship in 1839, challenging a whitewashed version of history and putting the Africans back at the center of their own freedom story\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e From the trio of Rediker, Lester, and Buhle comes another graphic \"history from below\" about the \u003ci\u003eAmistad\u003c\/i\u003e rebellion of 1839 when 53 enslaved Africans on the slave ship \u003ci\u003eAmistad\u003c\/i\u003e slipped out of their restraints and overpowered their enslavers and ship's crew. Sold into slavery in their homeland of Sierra Leone and later bound for Puerto Príncipe, Cuba, from Havana, these Africans, led by the charismatic warrior Cinqué, forced the ship's remaining crew to sail homeward.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Divided into 3 parts, \u003ci\u003eThe Black Schooner\u003c\/i\u003e begins with the intense night of the uprising and takes readers on a reconstructed journey: from sailing on the open ocean to a New Haven, Connecticut, jail, where the captured Africans awaited trial for mutiny and murder; to the Supreme courtroom that found that the rebels had been illegally enslaved and would now be free to return to their native land. Through it all, artist David Lester chronicles their story using striking imagery, showing how they achieved an unexpected and powerful international victory for the abolitionist movement and forced some of the most powerful people in the world to confront the issue of human bondage.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Based on Rediker's book \u003ci\u003eThe Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom, The Black Schooner\u003c\/i\u003e challenges a whitewashed history and instead, puts the Africans back at the center of their own freedom story--where they belong.","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Black Schooner: Rebellion on the Amistad","offer_id":46282502701253,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-0-8070-1690-9.jpg?v=1779840594","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/black-schooner-rebellion-on-the-amistad","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}