01116cam a2200253 4500 300165716 TxAuBib 19990414120000.0 980108s1998||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 98009283 /AC 9780525459705 pbk. $16.99 0525459707 pbk. $16.99 DLC DLC TxAuBib Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014. Amistad : a long road to freedom / Walter Dean Myers. New York : Dutton Children's Books, 1998. 99 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [95-96]) and index. Traces the 1839 revolt of Africans against their Spanish captors aboard the slave ship Amistad, their landing in the United States and arrest for piracy and murder, and trials which ended in their acquittal by the Supreme Court. 19990415. Amistad (Schooner) Juvenile literature. Slave insurrections Juvenile literature. Antislavery movements Juvenile literature.