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Amistad

 

             The movie Amistad is about a group of Africans that were betrayed by their own neighbors by captured them and then selling and trading them illegally with a group of Spanish contrabandists. Then they where introduced to a slave ship and send them to Cuba where they would be sold. During the trip they were mistreated by raping the women, lashing them, make them starved, and also some of them were killed by throwing the to the water. .
             After being sold, the one that nobody bought were introduced to the boat again to sell them in U.S. During the trip one of the Africans loose himself of the chains and liberated the others, and make a revolt where they killed the Spaniards but leave two alive to take them back to Africa but instead of do what they command them they went to U.S. anyway. When they saw land some of the Africans went to the coast to look for water. But when they were there an U.S. Army ship appeared and captures them all including the ones that were in the coast. Them they take the Africans to a jail where they would be retain until the court decide what to do with them. .
             Then a lot of people get interested in the case. In the court were ones from association that defend the rights of the blacks and other sirs that said that they bought the slaves in Cuba. The defendants had a lot of work to communicate with the Africans, until they find a man that talks the language of the Africans. Thanks to that man they could defend better the Africans by translating, so they could know where they really from ad how they get to America. Then their defendants founds proves from where they were searching inside the boat. The defendants also have the help and support of the ex-president John Quincy Adams. During the trials in the tribunal of first instance one of the sirs that was reclaiming the ownership of the slaves convince the governor to change the judge but it didn't work because they lose the case anyway, ad gave the liberty to the Africans.


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1. Amistad: Issues in Constructing Slavery

... brought to America on a Spanish slave ship in 1839. While the issue of slavery was huge during this time period, the trials of Amistad would focus primarily on the legality of slaves and what constituted freedom in the United States for these alleged slaves. The issue of Africans ... Cuba. This abduction violated all of the treaties then in existence. Fifty-three Africans were purchased by two Spanish planters and put aboard the Cuban schooner Amistad for shipment to a Caribbean plantation. On July 1, 1839, the Africans seized the ship, killed the captain and the cook, and ordered the ....

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2. The Amistad Captives

... (MHL Calhoun p. 235). The time period of the1830s is characterized by the debate of slavery and abolitionists could claim some victories. In 1839 the Amistad case forever changed the history of slavery in the United States serving as a key factor in the escalation to the Civil War. In 1839, ... slavery happening during that time. On February 10, 1840 the Hartford Courant published an article attacking President Martin Van Buren for his stance on the Amistad case and he stated "Martin Van Buren is playing the part of a tyrant with a high hand - else why this tampering with our ... laws of ...

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3. Book Review - The Amistad Revolt

... the United States. Her understanding of the Saint Domingue and the Haitian revolts against Melville's Benito Cereno demonstrate that these events united the doubts of African identity. By connecting the Amistad revolt with other major slave revolts led by Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner, Iyunolu Osagie reminds us that these actions symbolized the "unthinkable" for a European and American structure that had ... resilience against a forced silence and invisibleness. In the final chapter, Iyunolu Osagie studies how the "unthinkable" in American jargon silences the African and African American...

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4. Amistad: Hollywood versus History

... to glorify the good guys winning over the bad guys and creates a feel good disposition from the movie. Douglas O. Linder supports this in Salvaging Amistad by stating "It is about at this point that Spielberg starts running with his artistic license. He puts words into the mouths of presidents and queens ... , and misleads viewers into believing that there existed for weeks or months on end a serious question as to the continent of origin of the Amistad's black passengers." Instead of keeping the main focus of the movie on the actual legal issues of the case, Spielberg decided to deal wi...

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5. Movie Review - Amistad

... main character Cinque, the tribal leader of the Mende, breaking free from his chains and setting free some of the other slaves on the ship, La Amistad. They begin to rebel against their captors, killing all except two Spaniards, Ruiz and Montez. They spare their lives so the two can sail them ... it as unjust in the movie because they were originally free; Antonio had been a slave all his life. "Most importantly, the message of the Amistad rebels, who killed their captors and yet captured the sympathy and imagination of northern Americans, reverberated in the expanding militancy against ...

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6. Questions and Andwers: Amistad

... during this time slavery was allowed if the slaves were born in a plantation or born from a slave. 3. Who are the five parties that make claims at the arraignment of the Amistad Africans? What does each party argue and upon what basis do they make their claim? 1. District Attorney Holabird...his basis was on the claim of murder and piracy based on ... what happened on la Amistad ship. 2. Talbot an abolitionist who believed these slaves were wrongfully charged. 3. U.S. Secretary of state John Forsyth whom believed that they were the property of Spain and should be returned to ... queen....

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7. Amistad

... place from 1839 to 1841. The appearance of the Amistad on US shores in 1839 was significant, because the Africans had been transported illegally across the Atlantic Ocean on a slave vessel called the Tecora ... the aid of a freed slave, Joadson, lawyer Roger Baldwin, former president John Quincy Adams, and Cinque, the slaves are unchained and shipped back to Africa. Amistad provides a cruel look into the African slave trade and the treatment of blacks. The opening scenes depict the way Africans were transported across the Middle Passage. They were ... to abolitionist's attitudes, the c...

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8. Amistad Bible Scene

... the equality between whites and blacks even when their lives were threatened by those to whom slave trading and slavery in general benefited. The movie "Amistad" is full of scenes that can reinforce my statement but I chose to talk about one specific scene I particularly found controversial which is referred to as ... "the Bible scene". "Amistad" is one of the many hit movies directed by the famous director Steven Spielberg. The movie takes place in 1839 and tells the story of ... or "This is where the soul goes when it dies. This is where we are going when they kill us. It doesn't look ...

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9. Amistad

... and hope are clearly seen through the actions of several Africans and their "Big Man" Cinque, who over-ran the slave ship La Amistad in an attempt to go home. Fifty-three native Africans fate is chosen by a "dung scraper," a unknown attorney looking for a case, but that is only skin deep ... Baldwin, Theodore Joadson and John Adams to win the case in the U.S. Supreme court. Theodore Joadson was an ultimate help and support to Baldwin in the Amistad cases. He and Baldwin found many clues pointing to the truth that these Africans where truly from Africa. Without Theodore Joadson, the ... ...

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10. Amistad

... much important to our lives, and to believe in something is truly important for it is what shapes us and what makes us who we are. Amistad is about a group of Africans who were illegally taken away from their homes and were sold as slaves. They were able to free themselves from their ... convenience that it would be allowed. This greatly shows us how another mans conviction is anothers convenience, which makes certain ideologies fluctuate through time and place. Amistad clearly shows us how ideologies may clash and how they may fluctuate in the course of history. It also shows us the dif...

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