Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media

Period of Performance

7/1/1982 - 6/30/1983

Funding Totals

$45,000.00 (approved)
$45,000.00 (awarded)


The Amistad Affair: An Analysis of the Impact of the Mutiny by Enslaved Africans on the Spanish Ship, Amistad (1839)

FAIN: GN-20742-82

Rainbow Television Workshop, Inc. (Los Angeles, CA 90028-6607)
Topper Carew (Project Director: December 1981 to October 1990)

To support writing of a three-hour dramatic script about the takeover by enslaved Africans of the Spanish vessel Amistad in 1839 and the ensuing events in America when the ship ultimately landed on Long Island.