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Reviewed on February 1, 2011
Suffering, salvation, hope, despair: these motifs come alive in National Book Award finalist Young's latest collection, which chronicles the slave mutiny aboard the schooner Amistad in 1839. This three-part book focuses on the 53 Africans who rebelled against their would-be slave owners. Young expertly blends cultural and social history as well as religion to dramatize the lives of the rebels. His evocative ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
