Atlantic Odyssey

What do the people they interview know about the Amistad? What is their understanding of the impact of the slave trade in their lives? What about Colonization?

Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels Synopsis: Ghosts of Amistad by Tony Buba is based on Marcus Rediker’s The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom (Penguin, 2012). It chronicles a journey to Sierra Leone in 2013 to visit the home villages of the rebels who captured the slave schooner […]

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