Amistad Sparknotes
The film “Amistad” is recreate base on a true story about a slave ship traveling out from Cuba to the United State in 1839. The film start off with a group of African were shackled and chained then packed in an overloaded, dirty slave ship and exposed to inhuman treatment, on the Portuguese the Tecora as it makes its way through the Middle Passage towards Cuba. The ship carries 53 Africans who have been sold into servitude in Cuba. They tackled living board the ship and tied in the freight hold of the boat. As the ship is travel from Cuba to the United State Cinque the man who was a tribal pioneer in Africa, drives a revolt and assumes control over the ship. The revolt on the slave ship Amistad resulted in the deaths of the captain and cook
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Cinque family was gone when he arrived back to Africa they may be taking for slavery as well. The most moving scene in this film happen board of the ship. A lady has quite recently had a baby and she die in labor. The friend realizes that the baby would not be taken care of so she does not want it to have to live a life as a slave. During a whipping presentation, she tosses herself and the baby over the side of the ship. Even though the film was very interesting it has many unquestionable flaws within it. At the time slavery still existed in the North after the American Revolution and so this fact is not show in the film. Also the first hearing took place aboard the ship where district court judge bound over the ship captives for trial and placed them in the jail. Then next hearing took place before two of the United States Circuit Court in that trial the judge denied a motion to grant a habeas corpus. ” Habeas corpus is a legal action or writ by means of which detainees can seek relief from unlawful imprisonment” (dictionary) and directed the lower district court resolve the issue. These first two hearings were dismissed from the film which proceeded directly to the district court trial. Even though this film shows the horrors of slavery it’s also show a lesson on the American past and how far American has change from
Cinque family was gone when he arrived back to Africa they may be taking for slavery as well. The most moving scene in this film happen board of the ship. A lady has quite recently had a baby and she die in labor. The friend realizes that the baby would not be taken care of so she does not want it to have to live a life as a slave. During a whipping presentation, she tosses herself and the baby over the side of the ship. Even though the film was very interesting it has many unquestionable flaws within it. At the time slavery still existed in the North after the American Revolution and so this fact is not show in the film. Also the first hearing took place aboard the ship where district court judge bound over the ship captives for trial and placed them in the jail. Then next hearing took place before two of the United States Circuit Court in that trial the judge denied a motion to grant a habeas corpus. ” Habeas corpus is a legal action or writ by means of which detainees can seek relief from unlawful imprisonment” (dictionary) and directed the lower district court resolve the issue. These first two hearings were dismissed from the film which proceeded directly to the district court trial. Even though this film shows the horrors of slavery it’s also show a lesson on the American past and how far American has change from