Film: Black agency in the Amistad uprising: Or, you've taken our cinque and gone

Abstract

Schindler, Morphed into John Quincy Adams, Rescues Africans‐A Retrograde Film Denies Black Agency and Intelligence, Misses What Really Happened, and Returns to the Conservative Themes of the Fifties; with an Account of What Really Happened, and a Few Words Ahout Abolitionists as Fanatics

Notes

With apologies to Vincent Harding's excellent essay, “You've Taken My Nat and Gone,” in John Henrik Clarke, ed., William Styron ‘s Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond (Boston, 1968), pp. 22–33. Harding, in turn, quotes Langston Hughes: “You've taken my blues and gone” (ibid., p. 32).