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The Slave Ship SC (1953 Scholastic) Digest comic books

  • Issue #1-1ST

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    1st Printing - "The Slave Ship" (Originally titled "The Long Black Schooner") by Emma Gelders Sterne. Men, women, boys, girls - all are chained together on the slave ship Amistad. Only yesterday they were free in their lovely African villages. Then, slave catchers kidnapped them, and are taking them across the seas to be sold. But Cinque, their leader, has an iron file...On the night of June 30, 1839, the slaves cut their chains and take over the ship. Here is the true story of a breathtaking and little known event in American history. Softcover, 5" x 7.5", 188 pages, B&W, text only.

  • Issue #1-REP

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    2nd or later printing - "The Slave Ship" (Originally titled "The Long Black Schooner") by Emma Gelders Sterne. Men, women, boys, girls - all are chained together on the slave ship Amistad. Only yesterday they were free in their lovely African villages. Then, slave catchers kidnapped them, and are taking them across the seas to be sold. But Cinque, their leader, has an iron file...On the night of June 30, 1839, the slaves cut their chains and take over the ship. Here is the true story of a breathtaking and little known event in American history. Softcover, 5" x 7.5", 188 pages, B&W, text only.