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Slave ship

Dramatic re-creations and interviews are used to tell the story of a young man who, in 1839, was kidnapped in his native Africa, sold into slavery and while being transported on the merchant schooner "Amistad", led a mutiny which saved him and the other imprisoned Africans from slavery.

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  • "Dramatic re-creations and interviews are used to tell the story of a young man who, in 1839, was kidnapped in his native Africa, sold into slavery and while being transported on the merchant schooner "Amistad", led a mutiny which saved him and the other imprisoned Africans from slavery."
  • "Dramatic re-creations and interviews are used to tell the story of a young man who, in 1839, was kidnapped in his native Africa, sold into slavery and while being transported on the merchant schooner "Amistad", led a mutiny which saved him and the other imprisoned Africans from slavery."@en
  • ""Over 150 documented mutinies occurred aboard slave ships between 1699 and 1845; only once, in the case of the Amistad, did slaves successfully return to Africa. Using that remarkable and anomalous incident as a focus, this program takes an in-depth look at the slave trade. ... The program weaves the developments of the Amistad case-- argued and won in the U.S. Supreme Court by former President John Quincy Adams-- into the overall fabric of slavery in America."--Container."@en
  • ""Over 150 documented mutinies occurred aboard slave ships between 1699 and 1845; only once, in the case of the Amistad, did slaves successfully return to Africa. Using that remarkable and anomalous incident as a focus, this program takes an in-depth look at the slave trade. ... The program weaves the developments of the Amistad case-- argued and won in the U.S. Supreme Court by former President John Quincy Adams-- into the overall fabric of slavery in America."--Container."
  • "A retelling of the 1839 revold of the Africans abourd the slave ship Amistad, their subsequent apprehension and the trial by the Supreme Court which ended in their acquittal based on human rights, not civil rights."@en
  • ""Over 150 documented mutinies occurred aboard slave ships between 1699 and 1845; only once, in the case of the Amistad, did slaves successfully return to Africa. Using that remarkable and anomalous incident as a focus, this program takes an in-depth look at the slave trade ... The program weaves the developments of the Amistad case-- argued and won in the U.S. Supreme Court by former President John Quincy Adams-- into the overall fabric of slavery in America."--Videocassette container."@en

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  • "Slave ship"
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