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                                    Amistad
Africa, I have not seen it for a year and a half.
I am just a child.
Why should a child have to go
through such horrible events?
I remember my brother and my sister
and my mother [...]

Margu Kinson has an amazing story of almost going into slavery. There is so much to tell so I chose to write about the Amistad slave revolt. On the Amistad “cargo” ship there was a slave revolt. It was very gruesome. There were dead Africans and dead Spanish. Margru was hiding in the door way of [...]

Joyce Hansen’s book The Captive is based of Olaudah Equiano. We had to read a Historical fiction book, one of them was The Captive. So me and some others chose The Captive. This book was very good and I could see how it was similar to Olaudah Equiano’s story. It was very harsh at some [...]

On 2/6/09, Elizabeth Alexander came to the Dalton school and talked about her poetry and read some of her poems as well. She talked about the Amistad and read some of her Amistad poems. She lived near the New Haven Green and always wondered about what happened in the past here. She did some research and found out that the Amistad [...]