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Author:

Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-

Title:

Amistad : a long road to freedom / Walter Dean Myers.

Publisher:

Dutton Children's Books,

Copyright Date:

c1998

Description:

99 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Amistad (Schooner.)
Amistad (Schooner.)--Juvenile literature.
Slave insurrections--United States--Juvenile literature.
Slavery--Insurrections.
Antislavery movements.
Antislavery movements.--United States--Juvenile literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Indexed by:

Bst Bk/Child 6th.
M&JHS Cat 7 Sup98.
BCCB Recommended.
SLJ May 1998.
Bklst 02/15/1998.

ISBN:

0525459707
9780525459705

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