Amistad By David Pesci Marlowe & Co., 292 pages, $22.95 It is easy to see why Steven Spielberg chose to film the story of the Africans who rebelled aboard the Spanish slave ship Amistad in 1839.

Africans on board a slave ship in 1803 rebelled and drove their enslavers into the water right as they were arriving in Georgia. Then some of the Africans walked into the water and disappeared.

Britain outlawed the international slave trade with the Slave Trade Act of 1807, and its ships take the lead in policing the high seas, searching ships of other nations.

The Amistad Slave Ship Revolt, 1839. The incident triggered international interest. The enslaved Africans faced charges of murder and piracy, but the US Supreme Court found in favour of the ...

In The Empire of Necessity, historian Greg Grandin tells the story of a slave revolt at sea. The 1805 event inspired Herman Melville's Benito Cereno, and Grandin's account of the human horror is a ...

They were packed like cargo onto the slave ship the Morovia (or the York; accounts vary). Their fate was excruciatingly obvious, and the only answer was a rebellion.

Africans on board a slave ship in 1803 rebelled and drove their enslavers into the water right as they were arriving in Georgia. Then some of the Africans walked into the water and disappeared.