Amistad : a long road to freedom / Walter Dean Myers.
by Myers, Walter Dean.
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BookPublisher: New York : Dutton Children's Books, c1998Description: 99 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0525459707 (hardcover).Subject(s): Slavery -- United States -- Insurrections, etc. -- Juvenile literature | Amistad (Schooner) -- Juvenile literature | Antislavery movements -- United States -- Juvenile literature | Amistad (Schooner) | Slavery -- Insurrections | Antislavery movementsDDC classification: 973/.0496 Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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