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Written by David Pesci - Audio book performed by Courtney B. Vance

Abridged Fiction - 4 CASSETTES - 6 hours

Publisher, Publishing Mills (August 1998)

AMISTAD is the powerfully re-imagined history of one of America's first battles for civil rights. In 1839 fifty-three enslaved Africans, led by a Mende rice farmer named Singbe Pieh, staged a bloody rebellion on board the Amistad, a Spanish slaver from Cuba. The Amistad was intercepted by U.S. navy officers and towed to port in New London, Connecticut where the Africans were held for trial in New Haven. Led by President Van Buren, the pro-slavery American government maintained that the Africans were Spanish property and should be returned to Havana to be tried for murder, but members of the fledging abolitionist movement forced a series of trials to win their freedom, culminating at the Supreme Court, where the Africans were defended by former President John Quincy Adams.

About the Performer: Courtney B. Vance is an accomplished stage and screen actor. He has appeared in numerous feature films including The Preacher's Wife, The Last Supper, Dangerous Minds, Black Panthers and The Hunt for Red October. On television he has starred in 12 Angry Men, The Boys Next Door, The Tuskeegee Airmen and The Piano Lesson. On Broadway he received Tony nominations for his performances in both Six Degrees of Separation and Fences.

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