Amistad: A Novel Based on the Screenplay

by Alexs Pate

Paperback, 1997

Call number

FIC PAT

Collection

Fiction

Genres

General Fiction

Publication

Signet (1997), 320 pages

Description

Based on a true story, this is the novel of the film from Spielberg, about the 1839 mutiny on the Spanish ship La Amistad. When the ship is intercepted by the United States navy, subsequent trials call the institution of slavery into question.

Subjects

Slave insurrections Fiction

User reviews

LibraryThing member br14chni

The Amistad was not a book that interests me, I feel like all of the action and interesting things happened in the beginning, and left the rest of the book sitting in a cold jail cell with not anything interesting. If you are a reader that can get threw the boring parts then I recommend this book

for you. It is an action story about African Americans who get kidnapped and sent away in a ship, the only way they can get home is if they fight back.

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LibraryThing member antiquary

This is a novelization of the screenplay of the well-regarded film on the Amistad case when a group of slaves took over a slave ship and tried to take it home, but were tricked and taken to the US coast , where they were recaptured but finally freed after a case that was argued in the US Supreme

Court by John Quincy Adams. This version is fairly competent but has some jarringly modern language and attitudes. Its view of Martin van Buren (the then lameduck president) is wholly negative and does not mention that he was later the Free Sol candidate for president in 1848.

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