Amistad is a movie directed by Steven Spielberg in 1997 and based on the book Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy by Howard Jones, first published in 1987. The movie features Djimon Hounsou, Matthew McConaughey, Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman, Nigel Hawthorne, David Paymer, and others.
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Storyline
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.
Movie vs Book
Year
1997
Minutes
155
Movie Rate
7.30
Source: IMDb
Year
1987
Pages
304
Book Rate
7.00
S: Goodreads
Book
Mutiny on the Amistad
Subtitle: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy
Author: Howard Jones
Country: USA
First published in: 1987
Length: 304 pages
Genre: Non Fiction
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