Respond to the following using examples from the film. Your answers will be graded based on the thoroughness of your responses and your ability to think creatively and analytically about what you watched. 1. What does "Amistad" mean? (Hint: it is a Spanish word.) Why is Amistad a good name for the film? Amistad means friendship. I feel that this is a great name for the film because it showed how justice reunited people as friends. 2. What is the legal status of slavery in 1839 when the movie takes place? Currently during this time slavery was allowed if the slaves were born in a plantation or ...

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... independence, then in July was made part of the Continental Congress and thus became a signer of the Declaration of Independence (Malone, 228).   About a year later in 1777, the Continental Congress voted Benjamin Rush to be Surgeon General of the middle department of the Continental Army. While a   surgeon in the army, Benjamin Rush was in constant attendance of the wounded at the battles of Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown, and during the ... sickness at Valley Forge. Through all this, he still found time to write long public letters speaking out against the Articles of Con...

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