Kidnapped from Africa, a group of men, women and children are held in chains aboard the schooner Amistad. Only a boy named Ka-le knows the secret that could free them all. "Cinque has a file," he whispers. "It is hidden in his ankle iron.” On...
This gripping, fast-paced book tells the dramatic story of the epic 1839 voyage of the schooner Amistad and her cargo of Africans bound for slavery in the New World. Under the leadership of Cinque, a young African farmer, the Africans revolt and seiz...