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Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels

(Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels)
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Original Title : Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels
Time : 56 Min
Genre : Documentary
Project Type : Movie
Year of release : 2014
Director : Tony Buba
Writer : No data available
Producer : Marcus Rediker, Eileen Weiner
Project State : completed
Origin Country/Region : United States
Original Language : English
About : 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 ...See moreGhosts 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 Amistad, to interview elders about local memory of the incident, and to search for the long-lost ruins of Lomboko, the slave trading factory where their cruel transatlantic voyage began. The filmmakers rely on the knowledge of villagers, fishermen, and truck drivers to recover a lost history from below in the struggle against slavery, and to explore the African origins of the heroes of the Amistad incident. See less Read more: Plot summary

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