Kevin Young

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Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad RebelsPaperback, 18 September 2012

Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels
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Print Length
272 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Knopf Publishing Group
Date Published
18 Sep 2012
ISBN-10
0375711619
ISBN-13
9780375711619

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Now in paperback, a haunting chorus of voices that tells the story of the captivity, education, language, hopes, dreams, and fight for freedom, of the African Americans abducted in the Amistad rebellion.

Based on the 1840 mutiny on board the slave ship Amistad, Ardency begins with Buzzard, a sequence of poems told in the voice of the interpreter for the captive rebels, who were jailed in New Haven. In Correspondence, we encounter the remarkable letters to John Quincy Adams and others that the captives wrote from jail. The book culminates in Witness, a libretto chanted by Cinque, the rebel leader, who yearns for his family and freedom while eloquently evoking the Amistads' conversion and life in America. As Young conjures this array of characters, interweaving the liberation cry of Negro spirituals and the indoctrinating wordplay of American primers, he delivers his signature songlike immediacy at the service of an epic built on the ironies, violence, and virtues of American history.

Product Details

Author:
Kevin Young
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
18 September 2012
Dimensions:
22.86 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm
ISBN-10:
0375711619
ISBN-13:
9780375711619
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
272
Weight:
340.19 gm

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