The Amistad Revolt: Memory, Slavery, and the Politics of Identity in the United States and Sierra Leone

Index

Index Abolition of slavery, 32; American abolitionists and, 8-12, 22 Adams, John Quincy, 14, 15-17, 19, 126; in Amistad (movie), 123, 128; in Desouza George's play, 116, 117; in Dodson's play, 80 Africa, 3, 5, 53 Afrocentrism, 73 All People's Congress (APC), in Allen, Debbie, 122, 124-25, 158 (n. ii) Alvarez, 87, 88 American Colonization Society, 37, 51, 146 (n. 66) American dream, 82 American Missionary Association (AMA), 18, 19, 20, 65; missionaries°f, 55-57,66 Amistad case, 136, 141 (n. 28); in Dodson's play, 77-83, I51 (n - 33); impact of, 66-68; in movie, 21, 80, 116, 120, 135, 158 (n. n); revolt, 112, 137; ship, 5,6,71 Amistad committee: nineteenthcentury , 17, 18; twentieth century, 91, 154 (n. 79) Amistad Kata Kata, 105-10 Antelope (Ramirez)-) 15-17, 142 (n. 34) Antislavery, 19, 51, 54, 146 (n. 2) Antonio, 5, 7, 13; in Thorpe's play, 89 Argaiz, Cavallero Pedro Alcantara, 12 Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC), 135 Aureol Players, 157 (n. 34) Bacon, Leonard, 11 Bahoo, 141 (n. 24) Bai Bureh, 100-102, 113; portrait of, 155 (n. 10) Baldwin, Roger Sherman, 9, 12, 15, 17; in Amistad (movie), 121, 125, 128; in Dodson's play, 80 Barber, John W., 19, 23 Barracoon, 4 Bas-relief, 92 Blanco, Pedro, 4; in Thorpe's play (Blango), 87 Bowery (theater), 72 Bozales, 4, 7, 12 British Council, 106 176 INDEX Broken Handcuff, The,113-18 Brown, John, 75 Burnah, in Desouza George's play, 116 Calderon de la Barca, Angel, 9-10, 12 Calendar, Ebenezer, 113 Canada, 13, 19, 157 (n. 34) Cannibalism, 5, 78, 12,6, 140 (n. 10) Caribbean, 4, 27, 34 Carter, 148 (n. 38) Catawba Indians, 37 Caulker, 66 Celestino, 5, 78, 89 Centennial celebration, 72, 76 Chap Am So, 83-91 Charley, Dele, 157 (n. 34) Chase-Riboud, Barbara, 124 Christ figure, 79, 80 Christianity, 55, 79, 80, 146 (n. 6), 147 (n. 10) Cinque, Joseph. See Sengbe Civil Rights, 90, 96, 97; in Connecticut , 141 (n. 2,7); movement, 83 Civil war: American, 2,0; in Sierra Leone, 61-64, 66, 130, 136, 155 (n. 86) Clarkson (British Governor), 113 Clarkson, Thomas, 54 Collective amnesia, 102 Collective memory. See Memory Colonialism, 56, 64-65, 66, 68, 114, 148 (n. 32,); colonial past, 73; colonial rule, 100, 113; education, 100 Colonization, of Africa, 81, 82,, 136 Connecticut, 95, 141 (n. 2,7) Covey (Govie), James, n, 63, 64,90 Creole brig, 45, 52 Cuba, 10 Culloden Point, 6 Davis, David Brion, 26 Day, George, 11 DeBoer, Clara Merrit, 22 Delano, Amasa, 86 Desouza George, Raymond, 102, 113-14, 116-18 Dessalines, Jean Jacques, 31,34 Dodson, Owen, 76-83, 97 Dombokoro (Lombokoro, Lomboko), 3,4, 89, 139 (n. 2) Double consciousness, 72, 73, 94; double-voiced black drama, 74 Dougall, John, 13 Douglass, Frederick, 51, 52, 75, 128 DreamWorks, 21, 124, 130, 158 (n. n) Dred Scott case, 141 (n. 31) DuBois, W. E. B., 74, 149 (n. n) Echo of Lions, 124 ECOMOG, 133, 135, 159 (n. 32) Emancipator, 8, 19 England, 31; black poor in, 54, 146 (n. 2);position of, on slavery, n Enlightenment, 30, 31 Farmington, 13, 18 Female Emancipation Society, 17 Ferrer, Ramon, 5 Ferry, John, 9 Foone, 18, 95 Fordham, Peletiah, 6, 7, 140 (n. 14) Forsyth, John, 10, 12, 13 Fourah Bay College, 114 Fox, Henry, 12 Freeman, Morgan, 121, 128, 129 Freetong Players, 104, 106, no INDEX 177 Freetown, 54; City Hall, 112; destroyed , 55 French: attack on Freetown, 55; Jacobins, 30, 33, 37; Revolution, 2.6-32., 46, 143; Societe des Amis des Noirs, 32. Fuliwa (George Brown), 12, 63-64 Gag rule, 9, 12,9 Gallinas, 3, 139 (nn. 2, 5), 153 (n. 66) Garber, Shefumi, 157 (n. 34) Garrison, Lloyd, 8, 140 (n. 17) Gedney, Lieutenant, 6, 7, 13, 80 Gentleman, 18, 58, 59 Gibbs, Josiah Willard, 9,11 Gilpin, Henry, 14-16 Goffman, Erving, 2.5-2.6 Grabeau (Grabo), 5, 12.; in Desouza George's play, 116 Grampus, 13; Adams's critique of, 15-17 Great Depression, 72, 81, 82 Green, Edward Henry, 67 Green, Henry, 6, 7, 13 Grundy, Felix, 12 Guinea, 4, 44 Haffner, Charlie, 105-6, 109 Haiti. See Saint Domingue Haitian Revolution, 28, 31-35, 75; as peripheral, 143 (n. 19) Hamilton, Ed, 91-97, 116 Havana, 4, 5;slave market, 7, n Hay, Samuel, 149...