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Relates the experiences of a young Senegalese girl brought as a slave to the Danish-owned Caribbean island of St. John as she participates in the slave revolt of 1733-1734.

This documentary tells the story of the revolt aboard the slave ship La Amistad, in which Africans abducted from Sierra Leone in violation of international law took over the ship on which they were held, only to end up in the American court system. They took their case all the way to the Supreme Court, with various abolitionists and former president John Quincy Adams leading the way. Based on court documents and transcripts, letters written by the...

Many unsung heroes fought in the war against slavery from colonial times to the Emancipation Proclamation. This is the stories of the leaders of the slave revolts who revolted by running away and setting up their own hidden communities and fearlessly waged guerilla warfare against slave owners.

Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board the slave ship Amistad bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.

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.

Amistad was a ship that carried African people to be sold into slavery. In 1839, the brave Africans on that ship fought back.