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Title: Amistad: "Give Us Free" by Steven Spielberg, Maya Angelou, Debbie Allen ISBN: 1-55704-351-5 Publisher: Newmarket Press Pub. Date: March, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I WISH I COULD GIVE THEM "FREE"
Comment: Just like his film on it, Steven Spielberg's work on this book, "Amistad: 'Give Us Free'", was well-executed. It reminds one of Alex Haley's "Roots". Both stir emotions. Every bit of the story shows how cruel a man can be to his fellow man. And, I disagree with all those who term this true story "a story of illegally enslaved Africans", (Mr Spielberg didn't). We are shying away from the truth, which is that no African, (not even one), was a legal slave. There is nothing that made one slave legal, and the other illegal. There is no legality in slavery. Absolutely! That treacherous and heartless people overpowered, kidnapped, and transported, (in the most inhumane manner), their fellow human beings to America and other places does not, in any way, make those victims of inhumanity "legal slaves". Regardless of all the face-saving tales that those who defiled our lands with the innocent blood, tears, and sweat of millions of Africans will like us to believe, the truth is that not even a single African volunteered to become a slave in any circumstance. They were all forced into it: with no option but death. Those who ripped and enjoyed the bloodied fruits of slavery merely sought cheap excuses in order to justify what they did. But we know that there is nothing legal in kidnapping and subjecting human beings to such a horrible condition.
'La Amistad' tells a soul-eroding story. Cinque and his cohorts are true heroes. They are heroes of freedom, heroes of justice, and heroes of human rights. Songs have been composed about them. Books have been written about them. Films have been made about them. And, history will forever appreciate their gallantry.
Rating: 4
Summary: This book will have the most impact if you...........
Comment: Put yourself in the shoes of the victims of slavery. Allow yourself to really, really feel what it would be like to have every aspect of your culture, values, language stripped from you. Imagine having to sit by while someone rapes your wife, mother, 11 year old daughter. Imagine having to eat an animal which you have been taught is poison. Imagine not having freedom to marry and having to watch your baby being driven away in a wagon, never being seen again, because one man has taken it upon himself the right to sell another. Sit there, close your eyes and then you will be brought into a deeper understanding of the people of the Amistad.
Rating: 5
Summary: Links Perfectly With Life Of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Comment: The intercut of the church & prison was strange yet wonderful. The abolitionists gave Yomba an illustrated Bible and he gave his heart to Jesus[alternate version]. Cinque was the man who subsequently gave his life for his clan...Yomba was the informer who died beside Cinque in remorse. Cinque did what he did because he had to.
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Title: Amistad: A Long Road to Freedom by Walter Dean Myers ISBN: 0141300043 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title:Amistad ASIN: 0783231202 Publisher: Dreamworks Skg Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $13.49 |
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Title: Black Mutiny: The Revolt on the Schooner Amistad by William A. Owens ISBN: 0452279356 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: December, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Mutiny on the Amistad by Howard Jones ISBN: 0195038290 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: December, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Amistad: A Novel by Alexs D. Pate ISBN: 0451195167 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: December, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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