Book Analysis Pt 3 (1) (1)

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Chapter 4 Questions 1. Explain the abolitionist idea of “immediatism.” Immediatism was an abolitionist expansion that upheld the occasion and unrestricted abolition of slavery. Immediatists were convinced that slavery was a righteous insidious that could not be real in any case. Also that it should be stopped without payment to slaveholders. They argued that slaves had a typical right to opportunity and that controlling them was an infringement of this right. 2. The earliest accounts of the Amistad Africans were based on the accounts of white Cuban slaveholders Jose Ruiz and Pedro Montes. How did this initially shape the narrative of what had happened on the Amistad? These accounts were unusually favored and self- serving. They showed that the Amistad Africans were gruesome and savage. Ruiz and Montes declared that the Africans had rebelled and assasinatd the boat's commander and crew. These accusations at the start were thought of to be true by the American authorities. They made an account of what had taken place on the Amistad. The Africans were seen as dangerous people, and they were taken in and investigated for homicide. 3. How did Abolitionist allies finally come to hear the story of the Amistad Africans in their own words? What happened after they were finally able to tell their own stories? They ended up hearing the story about the Amistad Africans in a very organic sounding way for themselves. This happened when they had the opportunity to hire an interpreter who communicated in the Africans' language. The interpreter used to be a slave and he was named Sengbe Pieh. When the Abolitionist allies had the opportunity to learn about the Africans' story,
they had the decision to put any false information to close. They found out that the Africans had not rebelled and killed the boat's commander and team. They had been controlled into subjugation and had been treated very poorly. The Africans' story had drastically affected abolitionist development. It helped with revealing the detestations of subjugation and created public support for abolition. 4. Why was it such a big deal that the judge declared himself convinced that the Amistad Africans were indeed born in Africa and not in Cuba, as Ruiz and Montes claimed? What would have happened to them had they been sent to Cuba? It was a big deal that the judge declared himself convinced that the Amistad Africans were indeed born in Africa and not in Cuba, as Ruiz and Montes claimed, in discovering the fact that it suggested that they were not slaves. If they had been shipped off to Cuba, they would have been returned to slavery. The judge's decision was a notable victory for the abolitionist movement. It was a great lawful point of reference that helped with subverting the institution of slavery. Chapter 5 questions 1.What happened after the initial legal victory of the Amistad Africans? They had been set free from servitude and given an opportunity of whether to go back to Africa or stay in the US. The Africans chose to get back to Africa, and they set forth for Sierra Leone in 1841.
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