La Amistad

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.…

In the movie La Amistad 44 black Africans were captured in their own village Sierra Leone by the Spaniards. They were tied together, whipped, shot if you resisted obeying orders, and transferred to ship stripped of clothing. Survivors were those who were strong in eyes of the whites, weak Africans would be thrown off board and drowned such as the kids, women, and babies. During this process a dramatic scene occurred, between crossing from Cuba to the U.S the leader of the Africans Cinque escapes…

This essay is about a ship that was called “La Amistad”. This Movie was based on transporting illegally slaves that were not really slaves, because they were born in Africa, but they bought them so they had been born in Cuba, but they born in Africa. The author was Steven Spilberg, he is a very famous author, he has make Jurassic Park, Jaws and other good ones, it happened in 1839 the true story. This was from Africa to Cuba, and finally it ended in the US, three years later they took another…

La Amistad project In February of 1839, Portuguese slave hunters abducted a large group of Africans from Sierra Leone and shipped them to Havana, Cuba, which was a hub for slave trade. This was highly illegal and violated all the treaties that were in place at that time. Once they arrived in Havana Cuba the 53 slaves that were illegally purchased were then boarded onto a slave ship named the Amistad. During the middle of their trip the illegally purchased slaves overthrew the crew…

After watching Amistad and reading Walker Howe’s What Hath God Wrought and Sean Wilentz’s the Rise of American Democracy, the terrors of slavery and the incongruities of the legal system in a divided America was made apparent. The story of the Amistad Case is heart wrenching, but clearly exemplifies the changed our country has made in the definition of human rights and foreign agreements. Amistad tells the story of captured Africans who were transported from Cuba to America. Cinque, an African…

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