An edition of Amistad (1998)

Amistad

A Long Road to Freedom

By Walter Dean Myers

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Publish Date

December 31, 2001

Publisher

Puffin

Language

eng

Pages

Description:

Traces the 1839 revolt of Africans against their Spanish captors aboard the slave ship Amistad, their landing in the United States and arrest for piracy and murder, and trials which ended in their acquittal by the Supreme Court.

subjects: Juvenile literature, Amistad (Schooner), Slave insurrections, Antislavery movements, Slavery, Insurrections, Slave revolts, Amistad (schooner), Slavery, united states

Places: United States