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 returne

-- A library of the most important United States Supreme Court cases.-- Examines the issues leading up to the case, the people involved in the case, and the pre

Describes the historical context of the 1841 U.S. Supreme Court case United States v. "Amistad" that ruled that illegally enslaved blacks had the right to be fr

"Vividly drawn . . . this stunning book honors the achievement of the captive Africans who fought for—and won—their freedom.”—The Philadelphia Tribune A

In Democracy in America, De Tocqueville observed that there is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judic