The Amistad was a ship that made its way across the Atlantic Ocean to Cuba in 1839. It carried more than fifty slaves in inhumane conditions‚ but on July 2‚ the slaves freed themselves and rebelled. The captive’s journey is a story of rebellion‚ human rights‚ and the "unquenchable human spirit of the world.” (paragraph 11) The Freedom Schooner Amistad is a modern model of the Amistad. Just because they have similar names does not mean that the two ships are the same. One significant difference
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D’voya L. Wilks Wilks 1 Carlos Pettigrew AP Language November 27‚ 2012 Amistad Assignment The speaker of the film “Amistad” is David Franzoni. Since this fact was not identified verbally during any part of the movie‚ and I was not able to view the credits‚ I went to the World Wide Web to find the author for the movie. The subject of the film “Amistad” would prove to be freedom and everyone’s right to the acquisition to such freedom despite opposition. This is proven throughout the
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Amistad Research Paper Through watching the movie Amistad‚ I realized that it was really tough for the Africans in the past. They were being treated like animals‚ lived under poor conditions‚ not being fed well and get thrown into the sea if they’re ill. Furthermore‚ they were being sold as a piece of item. Africans had to go through a lot‚ in order to have the freedom they’re having today. The case Amistad is a good example about how Africans fight for freedom‚ and how this case changed the Abolitionist
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In April of 1839‚ a ship (La Amistad) carrying hundreds of native Africans from West Africa were captured near Sierra Leone‚ and sold into the Spanish slave trade. On July 1st ‚ while traveling across the Atlantic‚ the slaves led by Cinque‚ began a revolt on the high seas that ended the lives of the ship’s captain and crew‚ leaving two planters Ruiz and Montes‚ that were transporting Cargo (supposedly slaves) on the ship‚ to navigate the ship back to Africa. Instead the men purposely tried to steer
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Throughout the movie Amistad‚ directed by Steven Spielberg‚ conflict between Natural Law and Positive Law appears to be an underlying theme. The story is of a group of African slaves that effected a mutiny on their slave ship. After killing many Spaniards‚ the African slaves were then captured and put on trial. The story is based on a historical trial which took place in the United States during the years of 1939-1940. This trial ultimately became a very tricky political game between the North and
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certainly you can’t free your gun or your house. So how could you free a slave? It was pretty much a messed up way of thinking back then‚ but it was all they knew. People can and do change. Changes in how people thought was evident in the movie Amistad. Cinque the chosen spokesman for the Africans had a vivid real idea of freedom. He wanted to go home. It’s that simple. He had been taken by force from his home and family and place in a foreign place and was being held captive for something
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Amistad Movie Review A film about history‚ set in 1839. When a slave ship illegally tries to transport 53 slaves from Africa to the east coast of the USA‚ the ship owner messes up. Two slaves are set to court to prove that they are from Africa. By this time period‚ slave transporting form Africa is illegal. This movie tells the tale of the African Cinque. He doesn’t speak English so proving himself proves difficult. Steven Spielberg really has made a masterpiece. Perfecting the language in this
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Amistad: My Story Everyone has a story. As we learned in the movie Amistad‚ everyone goes through something different that changes their lives and shapes them into the person that they are today. This event or happening that takes place can have many emotions: sad‚ joyful‚ mournful‚ happy or even none. It all depends on how we react and let it affect your life. A major part of my story‚ and what has shaped me into the person I am today‚ is my parents’ divorce. My parents’ divorce has changed
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REFLECTION PAPER ON THE MOVIE “AMISTAD” Amistad was based on the true story of a group of Africans that were kidnapped and sold as slaves. They revolted against their captors and win‚ but are later defeated by a group of Americans. Upon arrival for their “trial”‚ they are represented by an attorney who wins their case several times over but due to corruption and fear of civil war‚ they are constantly denied their victory until they finally win out at the supreme court as they were represented
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The autobiography of Olaudah Equiano telling his experience during the slave trade compared to The Amistad shares many similarities as well as differences. As a whole‚ both of these historical stories emotionally and mentally tells the struggle of slavery including how they were treated as well as how big slavery was. In both stories it described how slavery affected African Americans so badly that death might have been better than being treated as nothing by being chained and thrown together‚ taken
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