For weeks following the 2000 presidential election the world was gripped by the struggles between supporters of Texas Governor George W. Bush, and Vice President Al Gore, over who would become the forty-third president of the United States. It had been many generations since Americans experienced the distinctive drama of […]
In December 1787, the "Bounty" left England for Tahiti, where it was to collect a cargo of breadfruit saplings. On Tahiti, the crew enjoyed an idyllic life, reveling in the comfortable climate, lush surroundings and the hospitality of the natives, particularly the females. Shortly after the ship departed Tahiti with […]
This volume presents the first full-scale treatment of the only instance in history where African blacks, seized by slave dealers, won their freedom and returned home. Jones describes how, in 1839, Joseph Cinqué led other blacks in a revolt on the Spanish slave ship, Amistad, in the Caribbean. The seizure of […]
