Africans caught and brought to America on a Spanish slave ship. The

Africans rise up and begin a mutiny against their captors on the high

seas and are brought to trial in a New England court. The court must

decide if the Africans are actually born as slaves or if they were

illegally brought from Africa. If the Africans were born as slaves

then they would be guilty of murder, but if their being brought here

from Africa is illegal, they had the right to defend themselves. This

was not such a simple issue since the slave trade had been banned by

treaties at the time of the Amistad incident in 1839. The movie starts

on board the Amistad. On the ship the leader o

ambitions. Cinque spoke no English at the beginning of the movie, but

him express his consternation at the legal system that may free him but

slaves are freed once and again and choose to return to their

because all men are free under the Declaration of Independence. The

53 slaves aboard the Amistad. After the slaves are tried and freed at

the New England district court, they must go to the Supreme Court. In

President Martin Van Buren, who is portrayed as a feeble man of

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