LINKS

ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS AND BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Exploring Amistad
(Mystic Seaport's excellent educational site.)

Sierra Leone
(Information on the country that was home to the Amistads.)

Legal Developments After U. S. vs. Amistad

Amistad
(Animated version of the mutiny and links.)

Amistad Story Ties Into Roots of United Methodist Church in Africa
(Background information on the missionary work began in Africa as the result of the Amistad incident.)

PROJECT TO BUILD A REPLICA OF THE SCHOONER AMISTAD

Amistad America, Inc.
(Information on the project at Mystic Seaport, CT. to build a schooner resembling as much as possible the Amistad.)

Mystic Seaport: The Museum of America and the Sea, Amistad

THE PLAGIARISM CONTROVERSY SURROUNDING THE SPIELBERG MOVIE, "AMISTAD"

The Amistad Case: Outright Plagiarism or Who Owns History?
(Information and documents pertaining to the copyright infringement suit of Barbara Chase-Riboud against Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks.)

Entertainment Weekly Online: Amistad
(News and gossip about the plagiarism controversy.)

BOOKS

Cable, Mary, Black Odyssey: The Case of the Slave Ship Amistad (Viking Press, 1971).

Chase-Riboud, Barbara, "The Echo of the Lions," (1989).

Jones, Howard, The Mutiny on the Amistad:The Saga of a Slave Revolt and its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy (Oxford Univ. Press, 1987).

Jurmain, Suzanne, "Freedom's Sons: The True Story of the Amistad Mutiny," (1998).

Myers, Walter Dean, "Amistad: A Long Road to Freedom," (1998).

Owens, William, Slave Mutiny: The Revolt on the Schooner Amistad (J. Day Co., 1953).

Pesci, David, Amistad (1997).

Zeinert, Karen, The Amistad Slave Revolt and American Abolition (1997).

NON-LEGAL PERIODICALS

Jackson, Donald, "Mutiny on the Amistad," Smithsonian (January, 1998).

Jones, Howard, "The Mutiny on the Amistad," Constitution (Fall, 1988).

Rosen, G. "Amistad and the Abuse of History," Commentary (Feb., 1998).

Trudeau, Gary, "Amistad is Important. Discuss," TIME (Dec. 29, 1997).

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

Hugh Thomas, "Amistad as History," Wall Street Journal (1998).

Zeinert, K. "The Amistad Revolt and American Abolition," N. Y. Times (Aug. 31, 1997)(Book Review).

CASES

United States vs. The Amistad, 40 U. S. 518 (1841).

INTERNET

See "Amistad Links" in this site.

VIDEO

Amistad (Dreamworks, 1997)(Steven Spielberg, Director.)