Amistad
By: adapted from the junior novelization by Joyce Annette Barnes based on the screenplay by David Franzoni and Steven Zaillian ; retold by D'Arcy and Evadne Adrian-Vallance
Contributors: Adrian-Vallance, Evadne; Barnes, Joyce Annette; Zaillian, Steven; Franzoni, David
Series: Penguin readers. Level 3; Penguin readers
Publisher: Pearson Education
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Harlow, Essex, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 46
ISBN-13: 9781405881746; 9781405878852
Subjects: Slave trade; Adaptations; Blacks; Textbooks for foreign speakers; Amistad (Schooner); English language; Fiction; Trials (Mutiny); Slave insurrections
Description: "It is 1839. The slave ship, Amistad, is carrying African slaves to America. There is a bloody fight on ship, and the Africans are free. But soon they are in prison in the US. Must they return to their 'owners', or are they free people?"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: Escape; title: Towards the east; title: In chains again; title: A friendly face; title: In the courtroom; title: People are not property; title: Africans or Cubans?; title: Proof; title: A new judge; title: James Covey; title: Cinque's story; title: Captain Fitzgerald speaks; title: Adams has a plan; title: At the high court; title: Africa calls.