Amistad

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Amistad is a film that shows the beginning of slavery and how it all began. To my surprise, the African Americans started slavery themselves, because they traded themselves for guns, materials, food, and many other things.

Slaves were brought over on the ship, La Amistad from Cuba and tried to free themselves from their owners. The slaves killed all of the whites on their ship except for two. They did not kill these two whites because they hoped that these whites would help them find their way home, but in fact, they were still bringing them to Spain, to be used there. However, these two men led to them to the United States, where there this whole story begins. Two prominate men in New Haven, one African American, one white, finds a young lawyer willing to help them, for a low fare, try to win the slaves freedom. A difficult task to say the least, the young lawyer, Roger begins his job. The task is most difficult because there are documents to say these men belong to Queen Isabella II of Spain, and they are property of Spain because they originated in Havana, Cuba. Roger must prove this is a lie, and prove they came from Africa. Because according


It is absolutely disgraceful how minorities are depicted. I am truly amazed. The slaves were treated like a piece of property and not like individual respected human beings. They were thrown off boats when there were too many of them; they were fed enough food for a mouse, beaten to death even when doing nothing wrong. They define pain and suffering, because they lived through that everyday of their lives.

I give this movie a 10. I thought it was well written, because it truly depicts slavery how it was. It gives us a clear overview of what went out and how slavery started. It is something I would definitely watch again.



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