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Amistad Revolt: Steven Spielberg
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Projo.com invites you to explore the story behind Steven Spielberg's latest film, "Amistad," a tale of the 19th-century slaves' revolt that becomes America's first civil rights battle. History is made when this case reaches the Supreme Court, as former President John Quincy Adams defends the rights of the Amistad captives. Years later, history is recreated in Rhode Island as Spielberg joins a growing number of filmmakers using the state for a backdrop. Learn more about the movie, and the story of Amistad itself, through Providence Journal reports, Web links and more.
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The story of the famous 1839 slave revolt on the small schooner, La Amistad has been depicted in numerous books, journals, articles, artwork and in Amistad, the well-noted film, directed by Steven Spielberg. The aftermath of the Amistad revolt and the subsequent trial eventually led to the founding of the non denominational organization, the American Missionary Association (AMA). AMA founded hundreds of schools and colleges for freed African Americans, after the Civil War, and a large number of other educational and social institutions for people of all races in need of assistance. Today, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) with an AMA background are still producing many of the countries top educators, lawyers, doctors and other professionals. Because of the Amistad mutiny and subsequent trial, the nation's largest African American archives, the Amistad Research Center, was founded in 1966 at Fisk University as part of the university's Race Relations department. The Amistad Research Center has a long and rich history. Today, the Amistad Research Center is located in Tilton Memorial Hall on the campus of Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. The collection contains approximately 250,000 photographs, over fifteen million manuscripts, 25,000 books-including rare prints and oral histories. The Center is guardian to more than 800 works of African & African American art including works by several internationally renowned 19th and 20th century African American masters.
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Introduce this lesson by reminding students of the story of the Amistad revolt, which many of them may know from the Steven Spielberg film, Amistad (1997). Ask those who have seen the film to summarize the story, then draw on resources available through EDSITEment to provide a fully accurate account.
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Many of you may know about the Amistad revolt from the Steven Spielberg film, Amistad (1997). If you have seen the film, summarize the story and then draw on resources linked to this worksheet to provide a fully accurate account of what happened. A link back to this worksheet has been provided on each main resource page.
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Jeremy Brecher wrote the script for the 1995 documentary The Amistad Revolt, which won the American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award and three regional Emmy nominations. Read more of his writing about the Amistad incident and Stephen Spielberg's feature film, Amistad, here.
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