Bibliograph

Ardency, a chronicle of the Amistad rebels, by Kevin Lowell Young

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Ardency, a chronicle of the Amistad rebels, by Kevin Lowell Young

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Ardency

Oclc number

635461180

Responsibility statement

by Kevin Lowell Young

Sub title

a chronicle of the Amistad rebels

Summary

A poetic epic that tells the story of the slaves, most from Sierra Leone, who staged a mutiny, taking over the "Amistad" 1839, featuring the voices of the jailed rebels' African interpreter, the mutineers themselves in letters to their lawyer John Quincy Adams and others, and rebel leader Cinque

Table Of Contents

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 ; Passages ; Captivity ; Conversions ; Merica, a minstrel show ; Manumissions ; Benedictions -- After word, or, The mission & its fate. Wilson, logbook begun at sea, Westerly, off the Cape of Good Hope ; Steele, a last letter upon leaving Mende Land ; Raymond, diary of his final days with yellow fever ; Anon., sampler found at the abandoned mission, sewn in an unknown hand ; Thompson, progress report on the new mission, hereafter known as Mo Tappan ; Covey, deathbed confession, in delirium, written in dirt ; Sarah, letter from Oberlin College, Ohio, preparing to voyage to the mission

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