Amistad

<p>This week we're talking about Steven Spielberg's Amistad! Join us for a discussion of John Quincey Adams, Lomboko, Poro, and more!</p> <p>Sources:</p> <p>Poro:</p> <p>Lydia Polgreen, "A Master Plan Drawn in Blood," New York Times, available at https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/weekinreview/a-master-plan-drawn-in-blood.html</p> <p>Caroline Bledsoe, "The Political Uses of Sande Ideology and Symbolism," American Ethnologist 11, 3 (1984)</p> <p>Richard M. Fulton, "The Political Structures and Functions of Poro in Kpelle Society," American Anthropologist 74, 5 (1972)</p> <p>Kenneth Little, "The Political Function of the Poro, Part II," Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 36, 1 (1966)</p> <p>Sasha Newell, "Brands as Masks: Public Secrecy and the Counterfeit in the Cote d'Ivoire," Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 19, 1 (2013)</p> <p>Christine Whyte, "Freedom But Nothing Else: The Legacies of Slavery and Abolition in Post-Slavery Sierra Leone, 1928-1956," The International Journal of African Historical Studies 48, 2 (2015)</p> <p>James Covey:</p> <p>Steve Thornton, "A Different Look at the Amistad Trial: The Teenager Who Helped Save the Mende Captives," available at https://connecticuthistory.org/a-different-look-at-the-amistad-trial-the-teenager-who-helped-save-the-mende-captives/</p> <p>Letter from James Covey to Lewis Tappan, available at https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane%3A54180/datastream/PDF/view</p> <p>Letter from James Covey to Lewis Tappan, December 14th 1840, available at https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane%3A54176/datastream/PDF/view</p> <p>Richard Anderson, "The Diaspora of Sierra Leone's Liberated Africans: Enlistment, Forced Migration, and "Liberation" at Freetown, 1808-1863," African Economic History 41 (2013)</p> <p>Charles Alan Dinsmore, "Interesting Sketches of the Amistad Captives," Yale University Library Gazette 9, 3 (1935)</p> <p><br /> Film Background:</p> <p>https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/amistad</p> <p>https://ww