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Dreadful Acts of Liberty
- The Eighteenth Century
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 56, Number 4, Winter 2015
- pp. 517-520
- 10.1353/ecy.2015.0039
- Article
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A review of Marcus Rediker’s The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom, a detailed account of the successful insurrection aboard a slave ship in 1839, the subsequent trials, and the eventual repatriation to Sierra Leone of the insurrectionists in 1842.