Good Bye Uncle Tom Vs La Amistad

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In this essay, I will compare two movies which are Good Bye Uncle Tom and La Amistad.
In La Amistad, the slaves were Kidnapped from their homes. In both movies, they were fed differently. In La Amistad, the slaves ate out of their hands. La Amistad was made for the screen in 1997 and Good Bye Uncle Tom was made in 1971. It’s a 26-year difference a lot happened in that period slavery became illegal in Cuba, but that didn’t stop some people from selling and buying slaves. Some names of the names that will be mentioned in this essay are Cinque, Roger Baldwin,
Theodore Joadson, John Quincy Adams, Lewis Tappan, Holabird, President Van Buren, Secretary of state Forsyth, John C. Calhoun, Judge Juttson, Judge Coglin, and Justice Joseph Story.
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Cinque was kidnapped from his home in Mehndi. Aboard the ship, Cinque found a nail which he used to set himself and others free. The crew was careless they left a crate full of weapons which Cinque and the others used to kill the Cuban people. They then took over the ship they kept two of the slave buyers alive to help them steer the large ship. Cinque used the only option he had left, which was a violent Rebellion. Between 1699, 1845 there were over 150 documented mutinies aboard the slave ship. Good Bye Uncle Tom they were Italian slave owners. La Amistad the slaves lived under the ship where the luggage and food go. Good Bye Uncle Tom the slaves lived in a barn or a cage. While the women were in the barn three white men came in and raped the African women in front of the children. At beginning the slaves were hung to dry after taking a bath. In both movies, they used this oil to make their skin real shinny. The ship was use to ship 53 Africans to their plantation near the Cuban town of Puerto Principe. On The
Petterson’s plantation a slave man got his penis cut off for having sexual relations with one of their virgin slaves.
Many slaves were recorded in Lloyds list the London shipping report October 3, 1769

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