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Author Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014

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

Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : Puffin Books, 2001.
1998.

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 Bristol, Main Library - Children's Department  J326.09 MYE    Check Shelf
Description 99 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Note Previously published: New York : Dutton Children's Books, 1998.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page[95-96]) and index.
Contents The background -- Mendeland, West Africa -- Lieutenant Thomas R. Gedney -- The battle begins -- In the courts -- What is freedom?
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.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG 7.4 3.0 18462.
Subject Slave rebellions -- United States.
Amistad (Schooner)
Antislavery movements -- United States.
ISBN 0141300043: $9.99
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