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The Amistad mutiny : fighting for freedom / by Barbara A. Somervill.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection E447 .S66 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Somervill, Barbara A.
- Series:
- Journey to freedom.
- Journey to freedom
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Amistad (Schooner)--Juvenile literature.
- Amistad (Schooner).
- Slave rebellions--United States--Juvenile literature.
- Slave rebellions.
- Antislavery movements--United States--Juvenile literature.
- Antislavery movements.
- Slave trade--America--History--Juvenile literature.
- Slave trade.
- America.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Literature.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 40 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [Chanhassen, MN] : The Child's World, [©2005].
- Summary:
- Provides a brief history of the captured and enslaved Africans who mutinied to protect themselves and the legal battle that ensued in the United States over their guilt or freedom.
- Contents:
- Sale of human beings
- Dark journey
- Mutiny on the Amistad
- Decisions and disagreements
- Trial
- Legacy of freedom.
- Notes:
- "Content Adviser: Joanna Banks, Museum Educator, Washington, D.C."
- Includes bibliographical references (page 40) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 1592962270
- 9781592962273
- OCLC:
- 54416033
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