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Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels (2022x4)


Air date: May 23, 2022

Retrace the path of the 53 Africans who rebelled against their captors and seized the slave schooner Amistad in 1839. Their goal: to visit the 10 villages where the Amistad rebels once lived; interview the elders about their history and search for the long-lost ruins of Lomboko, the slave trading factory where the Amistad Africans were loaded onto a slave ship bound for the New World.

  • Premiered: Feb 1964
  • Episodes: 464
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