Amistad: A Novel by David Pesci
In 1839, thirty-six Africans aboard an illegal Portuguese slave ship, the Amistad, mutinied. Captured, taken prisoner, and tried for murder and theft, the mutineers were defended by prominent abolitionists, including John Quincy Adams, who argued their case before the Supreme Court.
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