The long black schooner

By Emma Gelders Sterne

Subjects: Trials, litigation, Amistad (Schooner), Fiction, Slave insurrections, Slave trade, Antislavery movements, Juvenile fiction

Description: A fictional account of the 1839 revolt of Africans, led by Cinque, against their Spanish captors aboard the slave ship Amistad, and their subsequent arrival in the United States, where they were tried for piracy.