Amistad is a movie novelization written by Alexs D. Pate in 1997 and based on the movie of the same name, directed by Steven Spielberg in 1997. The movie features Djimon Hounsou, Matthew McConaughey, Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman, Nigel Hawthorne, David Paymer, and others.
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La Amistad is a slave ship transporting captured Africans from Spanish Cuba to the United States in 1839. Joseph Cinqué, a leader of the Africans, leads a mutiny and takes over the ship. The mutineers spare the lives of two Spanish navigators to help them sail the ship back to Africa. Instead, the navigators misdirect the Africans and sail directly north to the east coast of the United States, where the ship is stopped by the American Navy, and the surviving Africans imprisoned as runaway slaves.
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Year
1997
Minutes
155
Movie Rate
7.30
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Year
1997
Pages
316
Book Rate
7.64
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Amistad
Author: Alexs D. Pate
Country: USA
First published in: 1997
Length: 316 pages
Genre: Biography
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