Description
The official tie-in to the major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg. With 8 pages of color photos from the film.
Amistad is the story of Cinque, the illegally enslaved son of a Mende chief who led an uprising full of fury and courage. It is also the story of John Quincy Adams, the former American president, who reluctantly heeded the call to justice and defended Cinque in a Supreme Court trial that would alter a nation's history. And it is the story of men and women searching to find truth and to uphold the basic tenets of the American Constitution.
ISBN:9780451195166
