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Between the Amistad revolt in 1839 and their departure to the African home in 1841, the Amistad Africans became well known to their contemporary Americans in the vortex of the American antislavery movements. Abolitionists commonly exhibited ex-slaves at antislavery meetings to arouse the public’s sentiments for enslaved blacks. To antebellum Americans in the North, the Amistad Africans on the abolitionist stage were also introduced as the living evidence of the black race’s humanity that justified their right to freedom. In this theatrical setting of being seen by and seeing each other, while (white) observers tried to regulate the Africans’ bodies by imposing white-Protestant values and racist images on them, the Africans disproved this regulation by performatively demonstrating their unruly black bodies. This theatrical reciprocity among abolitionists, observers, and the Amistad Africans illustrates how they dynamically attended the social construction of blackness in antebellum America. American abolitionists manufactured the political and cultural significances of the Africans to provide a model of the black man who would be a heroic revolutionary and a pious Christian. Regardless of the abolitionists’ project on the Africans, observers did often not conceal their fear of slave insurrection and wanted to affirm their control over black people by demanding racial stereotypes in the Africans’ performance. Slipping away from both the abolitionists’ instructions and the observers’ demands for particular performances, the Amistad Africans displayed their performative bodies that discouraged these Americans’ attempts to inscribe them any ideological symbols.
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Adams, John Quincy / 1841 / Argument of John Quincy Adams before the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of the U.S. appellants, vs. Cinque, and other Africans
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Butler,Judith / 1993 / Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex.” / New York: Routledge
/ / Terrific / Def. A. Oxford English Dictionary
Adams, John Quincy / 1841 / Argument of John Quincy Adams before the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of the U.S. appellants, vs. Cinque, and other Africans
Baker,Jr.,Houston A / 1991 / Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women’s Writing / Chicago: U of Chicago P
Butler,Judith / 1993 / Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex.” / New York: Routledge
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