Summary Of The Amistad Rebellion

Two Perspectives of the Same Thing Marcus Rediker’s The Amistad Rebellion gives the impression of being told by someone who lived through the experience, while provide fact and details need to understand the story in a deeper level. However it doesn't just describe the actual event, the rebellion, but also informs the reader of what happened before the slave boarded the Amistad, what transcribe throughout the journey that lead the slaves to rebel and what happened after they took the ship until the moment they are taken to court. The series of event are describe with sufficient information to actually be able to form a picture of the event. Rediker’s Ghost of the Amistad is a documentary with the purpose of collecting more information from
It also shows us, what the native people know or don't know about this part of their history and how they understand it. Both Marcus Rediker’s The Amistad Rebellion and the documentary “Ghost of the Amistad illustrate different view of the Amistad rebellion while at the same time supporting each other. Marcus Rediker’s The Amistad Rebellion in the first chapter give an abundance of information regarding the background of the people that were on the ship, how the movement of the voice of blood started, the atlantic in 1839, the Poro society, warfare and the slave trade, and Pedro Blanco and Lomboko. It also includes information on other topics that is related in some way to the Amistad rebellion. Many of the slave aboard the Amistad were taken at night during raid and sold to the “notorious Pedro Blanco” but there were other special cases like Margu who “was enslaved to satisfy a debt” by her father (Rediker, 15-6). The secret Poro society is mentioned in the first chapter. Its purpose “was to establish law and maintain social order—in a word, to govern” (Rediker, 32). Although there was mention in the record about Poro, it is believed to be a big