Acclaimed poet Kevin Young gathers a chorus of voices that tells the story of the Africans who mutinied onboard the famous slave ship Amistad. Powerful, emotive and harrowing in its content, yet it also provides an important look at the historical background with letters regarding the era's leading abolitionists and thinkers. Young interweaves the liberation cry of the Negro with the history in a almost songlike immediacy that trapses through the virtues and violence of American History.
Compiled over 20 years the result is nothing short of a poetic epic, which is part libretto and part captive epistle.
