The Revolt by Hale Aspacio Woodruff
The Revolt depicts the uprising on the slave ship La Amistad, an incident that began during April 1839 on the West Coast of Africa when 53 Africans were kidnapped from the Mende country, in what is now known as modern Sierra Leone. They were sold into Spanish slave trade. “The men, women and children were shackled and loaded aboard a ship,” according to the press materials, “where many endured physical abuse, sickness, and death during a horrific journey to Havana, Cuba.”
