Tag: Ghosts of Amistad by Tony Buba
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What do the people they interview know about the Amistad? What is their understanding of the impact of the slave trade in their lives? What about Colonization?
Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels Synopsis: Ghosts of Amistad by Tony Buba is based on Marcus Rediker’s The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom (Penguin, 2012). It chronicles a journey to Sierra Leone in 2013 to visit the home villages of the rebels who captured the slave schooner…