Steven Speilberg’s 1997 film Amistad

Saturday, November 8, 1:00 pm 

Screening at the Van Pelt Auditorium,
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Library Company Director John Van Horne will speak prior to the screening with illustrations drawn from the Library Company’s rich holdings of African American history.

**Free admission to the museum and program for Library Company Members

Call 215-235-SHOW (7469) to reserve your ticket

**tickets are free, but there is a $3.00 service charge for phone reservations through the museum

To commemorate the two hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the international slave trade, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Library Company are pleased to co-present this special screening of Amistad, the story of 1839 mutiny aboard a slave ship in the Caribbean and the subsequent case in a U.S. District Court about the fate of the slaves.