37: La Amistad Slave Rebellion and the Rise of Abolitionism

History That Doesn't Suck

ProfGregJackson

Education, History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 29 April 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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“Give us free! Give us free!” This is the story of a daring slave rebellion at sea and the long road to freedom. This is the story of La Amistad. It’s 1839, and the international slave trade is illegal, but that doesn’t mean it’s over. Hundreds of kidnapped and stolen souls are forcefully taken from Africa to Cuba aboard the Teçora. Upon their arrival on the Spanish isle, Pépé Ruiz and Pedro Montez buy 54 and take them on another ship, La Amistad. But what this Cuban duo doesn't realize is that they’ve just bought warriors. With Cinqué leading the way, the Amistad Africans break their chains, kill the captain, overthrow the ship, and change course, ending up in the United States. But does that mean freedom? It’s a debate that will go all the way to the Supreme Court while leaving an indelible impression on an increasingly divided United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.1	Welcome to History that doesn't suck.
0:46.5	I'm your professor, Greg Jackson, and I'd like to tell you a story.
0:54.8	Who is for war?
0:57.0	The question posed in a Mendel language by one of the captives crammed into the small
1:01.6	two-mastage scoomers hold, cuts through the sound of the night's torrential rainfall
1:06.1	splashing on the deck above.
1:09.0	Nearly everyone of the chained enslaved men answers there for it.
1:14.1	Those few who fear the punishment that will come if they fail, perhaps lashes from the dreaded
1:19.3	catanine tails followed by salt, ramen, gunpowder being poured onto their mangled flesh,
1:25.3	are quickly rebuked.
1:27.4	Would you prefer to be slaughtered and eaten by the cannibals or die fighting for life?
1:33.1	An elderly man named Lubos passionately asks.
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