Amistad
Subtitle: a long road to freedom
By: Walter Dean Myers.
Publisher: Dutton Children's Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 99
Subjects: Amistad (Schooner) -- Juvenile literature; Amistad (Schooner); Slave insurrections -- United States -- Juvenile literature; Antislavery movements -- United States -- Juvenile literature; Slave insurrections; Antislavery movements
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.