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Marcus Rediker of Pitt’s Department of History discusses the making of his documentary film, “Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels,” which chronicles a trip to Sierra Leone in 2013 to the home villages of the illegally enslaved Africans who seized control of the schooner Amistad in 1839. The film recovers a lost history from below in the struggle against slavery, bringing academic discovery to a broad public audience.