Historical Inaccuracies In Le Amistad

In the 19th century there a two floored schooner named La Amistad, which is Spanish for “Friendship”. This schooner was built in the United States of American and was used by Cuba. In July 1839 there was a slave revolt led by captives from Sierra Leone. La Amistad was transporting these people to use as slave labor in Cuba. A man by the name of Cinque creatively used a nail to unlock his chains, and then his fellow captives. They were able to take control of the ship after having to kill the captain and other crew members that wouldn’t submit to their rule. They forcibly ordered the remaining crew to sail them back to Africa. The captives were outsmarted by the captives whom had control over the schooner’s directions. The remaining Spanish crew stir the ship to the coast of Long Island. The Mende people were arrested and imprisoned in Connecticut, were they waited during the court proceedings. Now is when the controversy began. The Spanish and there government ordered the U.S to return the slaves and there schooner as property. At the time in the U.S. slave trade was illegal so the U.S. governemnt refused to send back the Africans because technically there were free and not property. The court case United States v. Amistad in 1941 gained much popularity due to the subject matter of ownership and jurisdiction.

The facts about the Amistad case is that the africans have murder charges, even though they are property. They are not from Cuba but Africa. They have been kidnapped and have came a long way from home. They are the us property and not the Spanish property. They were also consider foreigners in the U.S. and should be brought back home. The Amistad case was about the africans trying to get back home.

The lists of abhorrent practices, like forced labor and human trafficking, that are involved with slavery and racial segregation has helped not only create a social divide between education and economic programs but has supported the values of capitalists within the American society today. Captain of the Wanderer, John Egbert Farnum, had rhetorically redesigned the architecture and setup of one of America’s fastest racing yacht to twist its functional maritime purpose of slave trade even though it had been banned by Congress half a century before. The Wanderer ship’s owners supported the dehumanization of others by enslaving them within a double layered reality. The reality of separate hidden floors on this ship not only ripped the African passengers’ freedom from them but also objectified them as items of economic profit. The use of an extravagant ship such as the Wanderer, in one of its final voyages to harbor slaves from Africa, is an example of an unresolved problem in the United States that include how slaves were dehumanized while they were hidden behind symbols of a great, wealthy, and a proud patriotic country.

Though slavery is taught throughout ones education, the severeness of it isn’t usually explained how the documentary Africans in America: The Terrible Transformation explains it. Throughout school, students typically don’t examine how the racial prejudice that was associated with slavery was horrific in so many different ways. This documentary allows viewers to be

Prior to the Amistad being detained there was an uprising. A couple Africans killed “the captain and the cook.” However, they let the planters live and “ordered them to sail to Africa.” Once the boat was seized by an American military vessel, the planters were freed and the blacks were put in prison. They were charged with murder, however, that charge was dropped. The case, which became known as the Amistad Case, became more of a property rights case. Did Cuba, Spain, and whoever else claimed that these blacks belonged to them, have the right to own them and enslave them? In the movie, the young lawyer, named Baldwin struggled to win the case the first time around, because he did not have enough evidence to prove that the blacks were in fact from Africa

In 1839, on board the ship Amistad, 53 illegally kidnapped Africans refused to accept the fate of slaves. Instead they rose up, killed the captain and forced the crew to sail away. However while they believed they were back to Africa, the crew directed the ship north and the ship wound up on Long Island. The African would be slaves were put on trial for the murder of their captors aboard the ship in New Haven, Connecticut. Their case went all the way to the Supreme Court, where former president John Quincy Adams defended the Africans and secured their freedom. The case United States v. Schooner Amistad, also known simply as the Amistad Trial, had a humongous impact on the Abolitionist movement, unifying, publicizing, and legitimizing, the movement's fight against slavery.

Not so long ago few Americans spoke of slavery – which was swept under the rug until the civil rights movement in the 1950s. The shame of slavery gradually rose to public consciousness over the last five decades. Now the topic appears everywhere, in movies, television documentaries and academia. Nearly every major museum has mounted an exhibition on slavery. This issue has become an integral part of the foundation for understanding America’s past. With specific attributes, slavery is distinct from all other forms of oppression, giving it a unique place in human history. Many consider Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) as the best among anti-slavery propaganda that appeared with increasing frequency during the years preceding the Civil War. The primary reason of its appeal is the unsurpassed clarity of Douglass’ writing, which displays his superior sensitivity and intellectual capacity as he addresses the woeful irony of the existence of slavery in a Christian, democratic

Still, there were others who wanted the slaves to be freed since in their eyes they were people just like themselves. This shows all the opposing arguments in the case. 7. President Van Buren played a major part in the Amistad Africans Case. Van Buren did not mind what happened to the Africans as long as it looked best on him.

lived in a territory where slavery was banned, so he and his family should be free. The

For 63 days, the Amistad had been drifting toward the American shoreline. As conditions deteriorated aboard the vessel, it's inhabitants at the time, Africans, sick and dying, were in need of food and water. Desperate,

[1] Before I start this essay, I feel the need to remind the reader that I find slavery in all its forms to be an oppressive and terrible institution, and I firmly believe that for centuries (including this one) bigotry is one of the most terrible stains on our civilization. The views I intend to express in the following essay are in no way meant to condone the practices of slavery or racism; they are meant only to evaluate and interpret the construction of slavery in film.

The film 12 Years a Slave, an adaptation of the 1853 autobiography by a slave named Solomon Northup, depicts his everyday life after his rights and freedoms are ripped away. Through the unpleasant slave auction scenes to the sickening slave punishments, 12 Years a Slave is a heartbreaking story that unfortunately conveys the harsh truth on the issues surrounding slavery. Consequently, during the film there are many themes and events that trigger different thoughts and reactions varying between viewers, and importantly a better understanding of Solomon Northup’s story and slavery itself.

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The dramatic story of the Amistad, which was featured in a major motion picture that opened in December, is found among the court records at the National Archives - Northeast Region at Waltham, MA, and in the Supreme Court records at the National Archives in Washington, DC. In 1839, 53 African natives were kidnapped .from an area now known as Sierra Leone and illegally sold into the Spanish slave trade. They were transported to Havana, Cuba and sold at auction as native Cuban slaves to two "Spanish gentlemen." The Spaniards were transporting the Africans and other cargo to another part of Cuba on board the Spanish schooner Amistad when the Africans staged a revolt, seizing control of the schooner, killing the captain and the cook, and driving off the rest of the crew. The two "Spanish gentlemen" were ordered to sail back to Africa. By day, the Spaniards sailed eastward and by night they surreptitiously sailed westward, hoping to land back in Cuba or the southern United States. The ship was seized and towed to New London, Connecticut, where the imprisoned Africans began a lengthy legal battle to win back their

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