Ghosts of Amistad - In the Footsteps of Rebels

About Ghosts of Amistad - In the Footsteps of Rebels

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 fac…

Ghosts of Amistad - In the Footsteps of Rebels (2014) is a documentary film directed by Tony Buba. At 56 minutes long, it arrived in November 2014.

It streams on PBS and WETA+ in the United States.