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Amistad By David Pesci Marlowe & Co., 292 pages, $22.95 It is easy to see why Steven Spielberg chose to film the story of the Africans who rebelled aboard the Spanish slave ship Amistad in 1839.

A replica of the slave ship Amistad, known for the 1839 uprising by captured African people from present day Sierra Leon, concluded its visit to the Hudson River Maritime Museum in Downtown ...

capturing a slave ship was very hard to do. HUNDREDS UPON HUNDREDS IF NOT THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HAD TRIED TO DO THAT, AND THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF THEM FAILED. SO, WHY WERE THEY SUCCESSFUL?

On Dec. 4, 1997, Steven Spielberg unveiled the historical drama at its premiere in Washington, D.C. By Duane Byrge On Dec. 4, 1997, Steven Spielberg unveiled historical drama Amistad at its ...

Often remembered as a slave ship, the Amistad “is not and was never a slave ship,” according to Paula Mann-Agnew, executive director of Discovering Amistad, the organization that owns the Amistad.

Often remembered as a slave ship, the Amistad “is not and was never a slave ship,” according to Paula Mann-Agnew, executive director of Discovering Amistad, the organization that owns the Amistad.

On March 9, 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, with one dissent, that the enslaved Africans who seized control of the Amistad slave ship had been illegally forced into slavery and thus were free ...

The ship, whose real-life counterpart is often misremembered as a slave ship, has been making stops in Harlem, Kingston and other cities and towns in New York as part of its 2024 Voyage for ...