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

Pages 57-70 | Published online: 05 Jun 2009

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  • 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).

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