An excellent book for anyone readying to delve into the truth of the past instead of blandly accepting some outdated school textbook of it. It was January 1993 in Cochabamba, Bolivia at an orphanage sponsored by numerous churches in Alabama and across the country. A quick, powerful read anyone of any color or belief may enjoy. Amistad is a brilliant book about suffering and the strength it may bring, about how hope may prevail under the direst of circumstances, about how mistakes can save lives and doing "the right thing" might end them. While some Africans had it a little better than others, during pre-Civil War days and even in some cases still today, no black man was ever truly free. The author does a fine job of remaining mostly neutral on the topic himself, letting the story unfold and almost tell itself. I am saddened and even a little angry I have so little knowledge of how the vast majority of Africans found their way to America and the truth of how my ancestors may have considered and treated them. While a "fictionalized" account of true events, the story is nonetheless riveting and heartwrenching, astounding and sickening to behold. Alexs Pate's version of the events surrounding the slave ship La Amistad are easy to follow thanks to his simple, direct writing style and unique ability to describe much in a few words. Amistad is a 1997 American historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the true story of the 1839 mutiny aboard the slave ship La Amistad, during which Mende tribesmen abducted for the slave trade managed to gain control of their captors' ship off the coast of Cuba, and the international legal battle that followed their capture by a U.S. What's the point of teaching history at all if it's edited? At that point it might as well be folk tales, interesting stories lacking any real facts. It's shocking to discover how much of real American history gets glossed over in schools.
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