Amistad Review
A detailed Summary of Amistad Review
Steven Spielberg's "Amistad" is centered on the legal status of
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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