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Amistad: Tie-In Edition

by Joyce Annette Barnes · 1997

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Contemporary / British English It is 1839. The slave ship, Amistad, is carrying African slaves to America. There is a bloody fight on the ship, and the Africans are free. But soon they are in prison in the US. Must they return to their 'owners', or are they free people?

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Subject
history
Genre
historical fiction
Setting
africa
Audience
adult

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