Themes: Context and Currents
The Amistad Revolt began on a small schooner, among a small
and isolated group of people. But, beneath the immediate events of this episode run
many themes, issues, and implications with enduring ramifications. A selection of
writings on the many issues surrounding the Amistad incident includes:
"Representing Cinque: Man and Image,"
Fred Dalzell
"American Politics and Political Culture c.
1840," Fred Dalzell
"TheAmistad Incident: The Source
of Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno or Not?", Mary K. Bercaw Edwards
"Some Precursors of theAmistad
Revolt," John W. Blassingame
"The Amistad Africans and America: A Study
in Response," Peter J. Iverson
"Mutiny on the Amistad: 'All
We Want is Make Us Free,'" Howard Jones
"Religious Abolitionists
in the Amistad Era: Diversity in Moral Discourse," Frank G. Kirkpatrick
"The U.S. Navy and the Slave Trade,"
Calvin Lane
"The Amistad in
a Global Maritime Context," Gaddis Smith
"Searching for the Historic Amistad,"
Quentin Snediker
"The Amistad Judge: The
Life and Trials of Andrew T. Judson, 1784-1853," Douglas
L. Stein
