| Web Site Review | The Journal of American History, 88.2

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| Web Site Review | The Journal of American History, 88.2 | The History Cooperative

Web Site Review

Roy Rosenzweig
Contributing Editor

The Journal of American History, in collaboration with the Web site History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web <http://historymatters.gmu.edu>, publishes regular reviews of Web sites. Given the joint sponsorship of this new feature, the reviews will appear both in the printed journal (and its online companion at <http://www.historycooperative.org>) and at History Matters.

The Web reviews are edited by Roy Rosenzweig; please contact him at <rrosenzw@gmu.edu> if you would like to write a review or suggest a site for review. We also welcome comments on our review guidelines, which are available at <http://chnm.gmu.edu/jah>.

Exploring<http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/main/welcome.html>. Created and maintained by Mystic Seaport. Reviewed January 14, April 11–14, 2001.

The powerful opening scene of Steven Spielberg's Amistad (1997) mesmerized many viewers. In 1839 fifty-three African slaves aboard the Amistad, a schooner lying off the Cuban coast, broke their chains, killed two of their captors with cane knives, and demanded that the crew sail them back home. Thanks to Spielberg, millions of nonhistorians worldwide learned that the bloody slave revolt aboard the Amistad began an odyssey that led the Africans to their recapture in American waters, to imprisonment in New Haven, Connecticut, and then through the labyrinthian American judicial system. Ultimately former president John Quincy Adams served as the slaves' counsel before the United States Supreme Court. In January 1842, thirty-five survivors of the Amistad mutiny finally returned to their homeland. . . .

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