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Activity # 7304.300
Date: Tuesday, July 27
Time:  6:00 p.m.
Cost: $3.00  (fee includes the book “The Story of the Amistad”)

This is a true story of African captives aboard the 1839 slave ship Amistad who, led by a tribesman, free themselves and take over the ship in a bloody mutiny.

The case of the Amistad Negroes went through the U.S. courts, ending up in the Supreme Court, where John Quincy Adams argued that the natives aboard the Amistad never were the property of any person or any country. The Supreme Court agreed. Steven Spielberg creates a historic epic of man’s inhumanity.

Please remember to read the book prior to the discussion. The movie “Amistad” will be played following the discussion. (1997, rated R, runtime 155 minutes)