Emma Gelders Sterne
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Juarez was a lawyer of Zapotec ancestry, who played a decisive role in a tumultuous period in the history of Mexico. A judge, a city councilman, in Oaxaca, and a governor of the State of Oaxaca, he was a liberal power during political culture wars in mid-Nineteenth Century Mexico. He was, imprisoned and exiled for his political stance, when conservatives reigned in Mexico City and served, as Minister of Justice and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court...
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Gripping tale of the epic 1839 voyage of the schooner Amistad and her cargo of Africans bound for slavery in the New World. The Africans revolt, seize the ship, and start for home. Are the rebellious slaves mutineers or honest men and women who sought to regain their freedom?
