She said in most of the time that she's been in Sierra Leone she has not heard of the slave ship revolt. ... " In the introduction the author guides us through her history of Sierra Leone and how she never really heard the story of the Amistad revolt, as she would have liked too. ... I chose this book because in class I had previously heard of a slave ship revolt but I was not certain if it was the Amistad revolt. ... I was also shocked to find out that President John Quincy Adams was in favor of the defendants' case. ...

• Word Count: 725
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Would you agree that African culture survived more strongly in the Caribbean colonies than in North America? In 1562 John Hawkins, the first English slave-trader arrived in Africa with a fleet of three ships. Into these ships he put the three hundred black Africans he had abducted from Sierra Leo...

• Word Count: 2095
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate