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Art of the Amistad and The Portrait of Cinqué

Art of the Amistad and The Portrait of Cinqué

Hardcover

Series: American Association for State and Local History

Art HistoryBusiness GeneralGeneral Art

ISBN10: 1442253401
ISBN13: 9781442253407
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Mar 23 2016
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

The Amistad incident, one of the few successful ship revolts in the history of enslavement, has been discussed by historians for decades, even becoming the subject of a Steven Spielberg film in 1997, which brought the story to wide audiences. But, while historians have examined the Amistad case for its role in the long history of the Atlantic, the United States and slavery, there is an oil on canvas painting of one man, Cinqué, at the center of this story, an image so crucial to the continual retelling and memorialization of the Amistad story, it is difficult to think about the Amistad and not think of this image.

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