Ghosts of Amistad - In the Footsteps of Rebels

Overview

Ghosts of Amistad by Tony Buba is based on Marcus Rediker's The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom (Penguin, 2012). It chronicles a journey to Sierra Leone in 2013 to visit the home villages of the rebels who captured the slave schooner Amistad, to interview elders about local memory of the incident, and to search for the long-lost ruins of Lomboko, the slave trading factory where their cruel transatlantic voyage began. The filmmakers rely on the knowledge of villagers, fishermen, and truck drivers to recover a lost history from below in the struggle against slavery, and to explore the African origins of the heroes of the Amistad incident.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

November 15, 2014

Original language

English

Spoken languages

English

Countries

Sierra Leone, United States of America

Production

Braddock Films

Director

Tony Buba

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

Homepage

Official site

IMDb

tt7315966