I want to start telling you my purpose of doing this incredible essay. I would talk a little about a movie called; Amistad this is a story which happens a long time ago, when the black people were slaves, so let’s began. This is a story were the African people were slaves of Cuba and the Spanish people send them to US, which the only thing that the black people want, was to be free so, they got it and they continue with their life, there is a lot information that I would share to you on this cool essay. Some of the things that you need to know is; who make the movie/story; Amistad? Well… it was Steven Spielberg; he had created a lot of incredible and interesting movies like Jurassic Park etc. The story is kind of good and bad, because it had
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We’re going to continue with a brief description of each main character that happen at the movie. John Quincy Adams: John Quincy Adams was the sixth president of USA he was son of John Adams the second president of USA. The role of John in the movie was to persuade the judge of lend Cinque and the African people free, how this happen? It happen because of Baldwin that send a letter, saying that they were in a problem which they want to get the Africans free, but the Americas wasn’t accord with them, so he arrives to Connecticut to solve the problem that they had and he talks to Cinque to know the reason of why they’re slaves and of where they come, so he can see that Cinque was a peaceful person and that he just want to get free with their African people, if you can see John doesn’t appear at the movie too much, but he gets free the African and Cinque, so they can return to Africa. Joseph Cinque: he was the leader of the Africans leads a mutiny and takes over the ship, called …show more content…
Roger Baldwin: was an American politician who served as the 32 Governor of Connecticut from 1844 to 1846 and a United States Senator from 1847 to 1851. As a lawyer, his career was most notable for his participation in the 1841 Amistad case. A lawyer named Roger Sherman Baldwin, hired by the abolitionist Tappan and his black associate Joadson decides to defend the Africans. Baldwin argues that the Africans had been captured in Africa to be sold in the Americas illegally. Baldwin proves through documents found hidden on Amistad that the African people were initially cargo belonging to a Portuguese slave ship, the Tecora. John Quincy Adams, Baldwin and Joadson find James Covey, a former slave who speaks both Mende and English. Cinque tells his story at trial: Cinque was kidnapped by slave traders outside his village, and held in a Lomboko slave fortress, where thousands of captives were held under heavy guard. Baldwin shows from The Tecora's inventory that the number of African people taken as slaves was reduced by 50. Fitzgerald explains that some slave ships when interdicted do this to get rid of the evidence for their
We’re going to continue with a brief description of each main character that happen at the movie. John Quincy Adams: John Quincy Adams was the sixth president of USA he was son of John Adams the second president of USA. The role of John in the movie was to persuade the judge of lend Cinque and the African people free, how this happen? It happen because of Baldwin that send a letter, saying that they were in a problem which they want to get the Africans free, but the Americas wasn’t accord with them, so he arrives to Connecticut to solve the problem that they had and he talks to Cinque to know the reason of why they’re slaves and of where they come, so he can see that Cinque was a peaceful person and that he just want to get free with their African people, if you can see John doesn’t appear at the movie too much, but he gets free the African and Cinque, so they can return to Africa. Joseph Cinque: he was the leader of the Africans leads a mutiny and takes over the ship, called …show more content…
Roger Baldwin: was an American politician who served as the 32 Governor of Connecticut from 1844 to 1846 and a United States Senator from 1847 to 1851. As a lawyer, his career was most notable for his participation in the 1841 Amistad case. A lawyer named Roger Sherman Baldwin, hired by the abolitionist Tappan and his black associate Joadson decides to defend the Africans. Baldwin argues that the Africans had been captured in Africa to be sold in the Americas illegally. Baldwin proves through documents found hidden on Amistad that the African people were initially cargo belonging to a Portuguese slave ship, the Tecora. John Quincy Adams, Baldwin and Joadson find James Covey, a former slave who speaks both Mende and English. Cinque tells his story at trial: Cinque was kidnapped by slave traders outside his village, and held in a Lomboko slave fortress, where thousands of captives were held under heavy guard. Baldwin shows from The Tecora's inventory that the number of African people taken as slaves was reduced by 50. Fitzgerald explains that some slave ships when interdicted do this to get rid of the evidence for their