Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy.

JONES, Howard.

$400.00

Item Number: 135992

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Revised edition of the basis for the 1997 film Amistad directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, and Matthew McConaughey. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by the author on the title page, “Howard Jones Framingham, Mass. 3/6/98.” In near fine condition. Cover design by Kathleen M. Lynch.

Reissued to coincide with the release of the major motion picture Amistad, Mutiny on the Amistad presents the first full-scale treatment of the only instance in history where Africans, seized by slave dealers, won their freedom and returned home. The film, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Djimon Hounsou, and Matthew McConaughey received largely positive critical reviews and grossed over $58 million worldwide. Amistad, like Spielberg's Schindler's List, is about the ways good men try to work realistically within an evil system to spare a few of its victims... What is most valuable about Amistad is the way it provides faces and names for its African characters, whom the movies so often make into faceless victims" (Roger Ebert).