Voyage of La Amistad: A Quest for Freedom

Three time Emmy Award winner Alfre Woodard narrates this chronicle of the story of the abducted Africans and their battles for freedom, first on the "Amistad" and then as they stood trial in a strange land, taking their case all the way to the Supreme Court with various abolitionists and former president John Quincy Adams leading the way. Court documents and transcripts, letters written by the Africans and their lawyers, newspaper articles and testimony from present day scholars painstakingly recount the history of this seldom told historical event.