Official Study Guide
Community-contributed Resources
- (PDF) Study Guide, “Film Pittsburgh, Teen Screen” by Lori Sisson and Kipp Dawson
Video Resources
- Peter Emanuel Interviews Marcus Rediker at the Mystic Seaport Museum
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Kalpana Biswas Interviews Tony Buba and Marcus Rediker for Indie Film Forum
Web Resources and Primary Sources
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Slave Voyages website. Brief Overview of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade by David Eltis
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National Archives, Amistad primary sources and teaching activities
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Library of Congress, Amistad primary sources
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Yale University, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Amistad primary sources and lesson plans
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Yale University, Beinecke Library, Drawings of the Amistad Prisoners, New Haven
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Famous American Trials: Amistad Trials 1839 – 1840 by Douglas O. Linder
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Barber, John Warner. A History of the Amistad Captives, 1840
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Newspapers.com, historical newspaper clippings on Amistad
Additional resources from Marcus Rediker
- Lecture, “The Amistad Rebellion,” Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, VA, November 19, 2012 (broadcast on C-Span).
- Lecture, “The African Origins of the Amistad Rebellion,” Brown University, February 25, 2013.
- (PDF) Introduction, The Slave Ship: A Human History (Viking-Penguin, 2007). (Viking-Penguin, 2007).
- (PDF) Epilogue, The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom (Viking-Penguin, 2012).
- (PDF) Article, “The African Origins of the Amistad Rebellion, 1839,” International Review of Social History, 58(2013), 15-34.
