Reflection Of The Movie Amistad

on viewing of the movie Amistad it was clear and concise that there were many differences and similarities as of what in the reality actually happened during the time of African slavery many of the differences and the movie referred to the favoritism of Europeans or caucasian group, people that owned slaves, it also showed how the court system worked in favor of the slaves around the african history. Although the movie Amistad was referring to a real life time. When African men and women babies children head been abducted from their families and homes and were sold to different slave owners and were often beaten “within a inch of their lives” or regardless upon arrival of the slaves ship “ la amistad” regardless of age or sex.
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And doing so Joseph acquired a nail that he have found in the chains to unlock the shackles from him and his people and a result of acquiring weapons out of a wooden crate after setting him and his people free with the nail that was dug from the chains, Joseph was able to conquer the ship killing all of the slave owners except two, which were the Jose Ruiz and pedro montes these two were the initial slave owners of the “La amistad” ship. The only reason the two men were left alive was to steer the ship back to Sierra Leone in other words home for the Africans but little the Africans know that the ship was only staring East for the daytime and Northwest for the night time. While making an attempt to head home numerous account occurred involving different ships passing by. While the ships would pass by the slaves with have to remain …show more content…
For instance the massacre name of the slave owners and being brought to trial this is inaccurate because of where the slaves uprising took place, from the movie it occurred in the middle of sea closest to Spain and England, for the slaves to be broke too America in the judge when they should have been under Spain jurisdiction. another seen from the movie that was not accurate was Tappan and his family the movie show no scenes of police breaking up fights and or citizens breaking into his house setting things on fire or his wife saying anything about a chimney glass that was broken. Another thing that was not accurate and the movie was the part when Cinque was alone in the jail cell and Tappan showed him death threats that people were sending to him this was in inaccurate seen because what he showed him in the Jail cell was a doll, a pin and a rope when in reality it was a box of slave ears and a note stating a body