Benjamin N. Lawrance is the Hon. Barber B. Conable Jr. Endowed Chair in International Studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
“In the recent commemorations of the bicentennial of the abolition
of the transatlantic slave trade, two facts were frequently
lost: first, that the trade did not actually end, but
continued for more than a half a century; and second, that a
growing proportion of those trafficked were children. In this
searching, searing book, Lawrance explores these twin facts through
a close examination of the lives of six children rescued from the
Amistad. In the process, he challenges us to think anew not
only about slavery and abolition but also about the meaning of
childhood, family, and freedom.”—James T. Campbell, Stanford
University
*James T. Campbell*
“Lawrance brilliantly analyzes the extensive documentation left by
the surviving 'orphans' of the Amistad who were returned to Sierra
Leone to expose the tragic alienation that slavery thrust on the
victims of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.”—Paul E. Lovejoy, York
University, Toronto
*Paul E. Lovejoy*
“This important book is mandatory reading for all scholars
interested in the history of childhood, the Amistad, and the
Atlantic slave trade . . . Essential.”?Choice
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