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Amistad: A Long Road to Freedom: A Thirst for Freedom
Newbery Honor author Walter Dean Myers's passionate nonfiction account of the Amistad captives' fight for freedom and justiceIn 1839, the schooner Amistad set sail on a short voyage from one end of Cuba to the other. During the journey, the illegally enslaved Africans she was carrying revolted against their captors and seized control of the ship. They hoped to sail back to...more
Hardcover, 96 pages
Published
February 1st 1998
by Dutton Juvenile
(first published 1998)
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Stacie Williams
Stacie Johnson
Walter Dean Myers was born on August 12, 1937 in Martinsburg, West Virginia but moved to Harlem with his foster parents at age three. He was brought up and went to public school there. He attended Stuyvesant High School until the age of seventeen when he joined the army.
After serving four years in the army, he worked at various jobs and earned a BA from Empi...more
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Stacie Williams
Stacie Johnson
Walter Dean Myers was born on August 12, 1937 in Martinsburg, West Virginia but moved to Harlem with his foster parents at age three. He was brought up and went to public school there. He attended Stuyvesant High School until the age of seventeen when he joined the army.
After serving four years in the army, he worked at various jobs and earned a BA from Empi...more
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