Slavery As Depicted In Richard Baldwin's Diary Of A Slave

.3 The Africans in the movie say that they were kidnapped but the Spanish planter say that the Africans murdered Americans on the ship. So the slave traders say that they should be charged for murder. But the Africans claim they were kidnapped.

Also the Africans were from Spain and Spain has a treaty with the US that any Spanish property found in American waters is belongs to Spain and since the slaves are considered property they belong to Spain. But the slave owners say they are people because they should be convinced of murder.

But then Baldwin an abolitionist who is fighting for anti slavery says that they can't be charged for murder because they are considered property. Then the slave owners say but we bought them so technically we …show more content…
She said that they were Spanish property and needed to return to Spain. She said anything Spanish in American waters is Spanish.

Queen Isabella said that she did not want slavery to end but she wanted her slaves back. So in the trial she plays the defendants home. She wanted her selves back home were they belong so that the treaty would be upheld.

10. Aboard the amistad there were slaves under the deck and they got very little food, and if you were sick you got none. The journey was longer than expected so they were tying the slaves to a bolder and drowning them. Then they had to let more go so any one with a kid decided to go overboard and take matters to there own hands then let there kid be a slave.

Then one night they all got lose and killed the crew aboard the ship. Then they told what was left of the crew to take them back to Africa, but they didn't. They were headed towards America and the slaves didn't know that.

Then the slaves saw land so they went to see the world to see if it was Africa, but it wasn't. It was America and a ship just happened to go buy and see they were slaves and that they had been taken to jail and they went to trial proven not guilty and token back home to