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Zeuske, Michael ORCID: 0000-0002-2502-7563 (2014). Rethinking the Case of the Schooner Amistad: Contraband and Complicity after 1808/1820. Slavery Abolit., 35 (1). S. 156 - 165. ABINGDON: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. ISSN 1743-9523

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Abstract

Based on new archival findings and new interpretations, this article presents new perspectives of the Amistad case', bringing it back into Caribbean and Atlantic history. The article demonstrates that the captain of the Amistad, Ramon Ferrer, and his crew were transatlantic slave traders and smugglers and provides proof that the Amistad was built in Cuba. Moreover, as a result of the enormous profits of the illegal slave trade, Ferrer bought more slave ships and invested much money in the modernization of plantation production. This article also critiques one of the most influential narratives about the Atlantic crossing of the Amistad captives: that they did so in a Portuguese ship named Tecora'. As the harbor lists of Havana in 1839 show, the captives came in a ship named Hugh Boyle under the American captain, J.R. Brown. All this gives new insights into the American participation in the hidden Atlantic and the significance of Cuba as a provider of contraband captives for the American South.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Zeuske, Michael UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-2502-7563 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-448764
DOI:	10.1080/0144039X.2013.798173
Journal or Publication Title:	Slavery Abolit.
Volume:	35
Number:	1
Page Range:	S. 156 - 165
Date:	2014
Publisher:	ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Place of Publication:	ABINGDON
ISSN:	1743-9523
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language History Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/44876