Interpreting the Amistad Trials
How Interpreters and Translators Make and Shape History
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 24 July 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781501394607
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 215x139 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 35 b&w illustrations 700
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Interpreting The Amistad Trials traces the signal importance of interpreters and translators in the famous 19th-century Amistad case and discusses how race, ethnicity, slavery, and colonialism shaped this story.
From the recruitment process to the various oral to sign languages that mediated linguistically in the Africans' life inside and outside the courtroom, and from evidentiary documents to fraudulent translations to credible testimonies, Jeanette Zaragoza-De León demonstrates the crucial importance of translation and interpretation in the Amistad plot and outcome. De León examines handwritten letters, pamphlets, newspapers, and judicial files, and adopts a critical race theory and postcolonial lens to analyze these materials. Although these critical interpretations and translations travelled transatlantically via Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States, De León highlights the common thread which also geographically unites Venezuela, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic as part of the Amistad story.
One of the most comprehensive studies of recorded events in the history of interpretation and translation in the Americas, Interpreting The Amistad Trials is a valuable resource for researchers studying coloniality, enslavement, race and ethnic studies and examining how these issues mattered then and now.
Table of Contents:
List of Definitions
List of Figures
The Names of the Amistad Interpreters and Translators
Preface
Foreword by William G. Thomas III
Introduction
1. Like Water for Chocolate: The Colonial and Enslaving Background of the Amistad Case
Transatlantic and Transnational Trade: The Backdrop of the Amistad Case
The Amistad Christian Abolitionists-Some Friends in the Midst of an Unfriendly Environment
Court Interpreting in the Nineteenth Century in Spain, Colonized Territories, and the USA
2. Translated Racial and Ethnic Issues in the Amistad Case
Introduction: How They Mattered
On the Evidentiary Documents: The Licencias
Translation Issues from Connecticut to Congress, from the Judicial to the Executive Branch
Translating Slavery and Liberation via the Amistad Missives
3. The Amistad Translators
John Quincy Adams, One of the Four Amistad Translators
JQA, Robert Greenhow-the Second Amistad Translator-and the Creation of the 1840 Congressional Sub Committee to Explore the Amistad Translation Matters
William B. Hodgson-the Backstage Translator in the Amistad Congressional Saga
William Jay, Esq., the Fourth Amistad Translator
4. The Recruitment
The Amistad Recruitment Strategies
Wanted-a Court Interpreter for the Amistad Case and List of Requirements
The "Simple Truth": Many Were Called; Few Were Chosen.
Interpreters Found! "Covey and Pratt of Brig Buzzard."
5. The Transatlantic Interpreters in the Amistad Case
How They Shaped History and How History Shaped Them
James K. Covey: The Final Court Interpreter of the Amistad Case
Antonio Ferrer a.k.a. "Antonio, the cabin boy"
John Ferry, the First African Interpreter in the Amistad Case
Sign Language Interpreting in the Amistad Case
6. The Amistad Hearings
September 19th, 1839-The 2nd Court Hearing
Interpreter's Depositions Support Cultural and Language Identification
The Postponement of the November 19th, 1839 Trial: James Covey at Fault
Prelude to the November Trial: Knives' Smugglers and Interpreters for Liberation
7. The "Amistad" Trial from January 7th to January 11th of 1840
January 7th, 1840. First Day of Trial: Language at Trial.
January 8th, 1840. Second Day of Trial: The Interpreter at Trial
January 9th, 1840. Third Day of Trial
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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