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.
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