Marcus Rediker and Tony Buba: Ghosts of Amistad

Marcus Rediker and Tony Buba: Ghosts of Amistad

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Marcus Rediker and Tony Buba: Ghosts of Amistad

Marcus Rediker and Tony Buba: Ghosts of Amistad

Sat, Mar 28, 2015, 10:00am
  • Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and the Humanities Center at CMU
  • SPACE
  • Ticket Prices
    Festival Pass: $20 for general admission; $10 for students

Writer Marcus Rediker and filmmaker Tony Buba will discuss the recent film Ghosts of Amistad, with WESA Morning Edition host Josh Raulerson. This documentary by Tony Buba is based on Marcus Rediker’s The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom. It chronicles a trip to Sierra Leone in 2013 to visit the home villages of the people who seized the slave schooner Amistad in 1839, to interview elders about local memory of the case, and to search for the long-lost ruins of Lomboko, the slave trading factory where their cruel transatlantic voyage began. The film uses the knowledge of villagers, fishermen, and truck drivers to recover a lost history from below in the struggle against slavery.

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This event is part of the Pittsburgh Humanities Festival. Learn more here.

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