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; Slave insurrections -- Juvenile literature; Antislavery movements -- Juvenile literature
Genres: Juvenile literature
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: j-148,572

Includes bibliographical references and index.