“Sarah Margru Kinson, as she came to be known, was only nine years old when she was taken from her home in Africa and brought to Cuba, where she and fifty-two other captives, including three other children, were sold and taken aboard the Amistad. The Africans revolted and took over the ship, but were later captured and put on trial, a trial that went all way to the Supreme Court and was argued in the Africans’ favor by John Quincy Adams, allowing them to return home to Africa. Here is that extraordinary story as told by one of those children. A fictionalized account.”–Jacket flap.
- ISBN: 9780763650384
- Published: 2013 , Candlewick Press
- Themes: captivity, Children, Kidnapping, Slaves and slavery, Supreme Court, Trials
- Descriptors: Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Sierra Leone