THE AMISTAD AFFAIR
FAIN: GN-*0491-80
Rainbow Television Workshop, Inc. (Los Angeles, CA 90028-6607)
Topper Carew (Project Director: November 1979 to October 1990)
To support planning for a four-part television series about the mutiny in 1839 by African slaves aboard the Spanish vessel, Amistad. The series will dramatize the incident and the subsequent trial of the slaves before the U.S. Supreme Court.