INTERMEDIATE FICTION
Chambers, Veronica Lee, Paul, Illustrator

Amistad Rising: A Story of Freedom

(3) 4-6 On the deadly Middle Passage, the African Cinque leads a successful shipboard mutiny. Tricked by the surviving crew into thinking the ship is returning to Africa, Cinque and his fellow Africans end up in a Connecticut prison but win their freedom in a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court. Somber artwork illustrates the true story, which is embellished with imagined dialogue.

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