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Chambers, Veronica Lee, Paul, Illustrator

Amistad Rising: A Story of Freedom

40 pp. | Harcourt | January, 1998 | Trade ISBN 0-15-201803-4
(3) 4-6 On the deadly Middle Passage, the African Cinque leads a successful shipboard mutiny. Tricked by the surviving crew into thinking the ship is returning to Africa, Cinque and his fellow Africans end up in a Connecticut prison but win their freedom in a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court. Somber artwork illustrates the true story, which is embellished with imagined dialogue.
Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.

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