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The Amistad and Models for Fighting Injustice
African Update
(2021)
Abstract
This presentation, the 18th Annual Lecture on the AMISTAD at Central Connecticut State University, is divided into two parts. The first part presents background information explaining that by the time the Amistad ship sailed out of the waters of Sierra Leone in 1839, that land had already become a sacred place where a very large number of Black Africans from Western Africa and other parts of Sub-Saharan Africa and from the New World were already residing together for over four decades. For example, from 1807 to 1840 alone, there were over 60,000 liberated Africans rescued from slave ships who were resettled in Freetown, Sierra Leone. By the 1850s, there were hundreds of languages spoken in Freetown. As a result, there was a need for the creation of a common language to communicate, the Creole/Krio language. The second part of this lecture presents three models of fighting injustice in the United States: the Amistad/Marcus Garvey model; the Black Lives Matter/Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. model; and the Hybrid model.
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Publication Date
2021
Citation Information
Kaba, Amadu Jacky. 2021. ”The Amistad and Models for Fighting Injustice,” African Update, XXVIII, (2): 13 pages. https://www2.ccsu.edu/africaupdate/?article=504