Staging the Amistad collects in print for the first time plays about the Amistad slave revolt by three of Sierra Leone’s most influential playwrights of the l

From journalism and lectures to drama, visual art, and the Spielberg film, this study ranges across the varied cultural reactions--in America and Sierra Leone--

"Vividly drawn . . . this stunning book honors the achievement of the captive Africans who fought for—and won—their freedom.”—The Philadelphia Tribune A

This volume presents the first full-scale treatment of the only instance in history where African blacks, seized by slave dealers, won their freedom and returne

Staging the Amistad collects for the first time plays about the Amistad slave revolt by three of Sierra Leone's most influential playwrights of the latter decad