The Amistad Coloring Book

Peter F. Copeland

Courier Corporation, Dec 20, 2002 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 32 pages

Features 28 meticulously rendered, ready-to-color illustrations, among them the capture of Africans in their homeland, their revolt aboard ship in Havana, imprisonment in a New Haven jail, and their successful defense before the Supreme Court by former U.S. President John Quincy Adams. Captions.

About the author

Peter F. Copeland was born September 19, 1957. He received a B.A. from Lawrence University in Wisconsin, and also attended the University of Exeter in England. An experienced reporter, Copeland worked for the City News Bureau of Chicago from 1980 to 1982, the El Paso (Texas) Herald Post from 1982 to 1984, and the Scripps-Howard News Service in Washington, D.C. in 1984. Copeland has written books on United States history, including From Antietam to Gettysburg, (1983), She Went to War: The Rhonda Cornum Story (with Rhonda Cornum), (1993), and Great Native Americans, (1997). He has also authored numerous historical coloring books.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Amistad Coloring Book; Dover History Coloring Book Series; Dover Pictoral Archive; Dover coloring book
• Author: Peter F. Copeland
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Courier Corporation, 2002
• ISBN: 0486423751, 9780486423753
• Length: 32 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / Activity Books; Juvenile Nonfiction / History / Africa; Juvenile Nonfiction / History / General; Juvenile Nonfiction / History / Other