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    Amistad Summary

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    Amistad Movie Summary The film begins in the depths of the schooner La Amistad, a slave-ship carrying captured West Africans into slavery. The film's protagonist, Sengbe Pieh, most known by his Spanish name, "Cinqué," painstakingly picks a nail out of the ship's structure and uses it to pick the lock on his shackles. Freeing a number of his companions, Cinqué initiates a rebellion on board the storm-tossed vessel. In the ensuing fighting, several Africans and most of the ship's Spanish crew are

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    Steven Spielberg's La Amistad Essay

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    La Amistad, was based on historical events. Blacks from West Africa were captured and sold into slavery. They were put on a boat called the Tecora and later transferred to the clipper called La Amistad. Spielberg did a beautiful job in accurately recreating the events that lead to the historical court hearings of the imprisoned blacks. The hearings began at the state level. Then it was taken to the Supreme Court. Questions about slavery, equality, and freedom, sprung forth during the Amistad case

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    Slavery In Amistad

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    Amistad is a 1997 historical and drama film that focuses on the new-world Atlantic slave trade between the Americas and Africa and the 1839 Amistad slave ship, which transported Africans from Mendiland, or modern-day Sierra-Leone, to a shipping port in Cuba. The film depicts the experiences of slaves being captured from their homeland and living in the horrifying and brutal Amistad ship. Furthermore, the movie depicts the Cuban slave auctions, in which the slaves, who were not thrown off the ship

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    Who Is The Amistad?

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    U.S History Period 1 Amistad Amistad is an Spanish word that means “ Friendship.” This film is about an slave ship that was named Amistad that worked for slave trading in Spain. It was produced by Steven Spielberg and it is considered a masterpiece for learning and entertainment. This film is a set of events where a group of Africans revolted in 1839 while heading for slavery in the Americas. The story begins with a group of Africans on board of the ship known as Amistad, some of the slaves were

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    Amistad Movie Essay

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    The movie Amistad is about a group of African slaves who were illegally transported to the United States and the case that decided if they will return to Africa. It was directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the true story of the events in 1839 aboard the slave ships La Amistad and the Tecora, This events happened in Connecticut, United States, Cuba and Africa. This film started when the slaves guided by Cinqué led a revolt in the slave ship La Amistad. The slaves forced two Spanish crewman to

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    Legal Issues In Amistad

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    “Amistad” Amistad is a film produced by Steven Spielberg the person who created E.T and Jurassic park. la Amistad is based on the true story of the events in 1839 aboard the slave ship Amistad, during which Mende tribesmen abducted for the slave trade managed to gain control of their captors' ship off the coast of Cuba, and the international legal battle that followed their capture by a U.S. revenue cutter. The case was ultimately resolved by the Supreme Court in 1841. The plot was that a Spanish

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    In Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Amistad, a group of Africans were kidnapped from their home, Sierra Leone, Africa, in 1839 and shipped to Havana, Cuba. The leader of the group named Cinque Joseph, led a mutiny against the Spanish crew. The remaining Spaniards, Ruiz and Montes, claimed they would steer the ship back to Africa, but arrived off the coast of the Northern state of Connecticut. Cinque’s group was arrested and charged with mutiny. Real estate lawyer named Roger Baldwin, former President

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    In 1997 a movie called Amistad depicted the true story of a group of Africans that were taken from their families and forced into slavery. Although the movie was heavily criticized for it's inaccurate tale of the terrible ordeal, it gave the story world-renowned attention. The real story had more drama and tearjerker parts then the movie did. If the movie ever gets remade, hopefully this time it follows the facts exactly. A man named Sengbe Pieh, commonly known in the United States as Jose Cinque

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    Amistad is a movie depicting the real events concerning the Spanish slave ship, La Amistad, in 1839. The movie starts off with Cinque, one of the slaves, breaking free from his shackles, and leading a revolt on the ship. The slaves kill all the crew except for two people, and demand that they be sailed back to Africa. The Spanish sailors agree, but they deviously sail the ship to America. When the ship reaches the United States, the slaves are put in jail, and are going to be tried in court for murder

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    The movie, Amistad, was produced by Steven Spielberg. The film is based on a real story of a slave ship in 1839. More than fifty people from Africa were abducted as slaves; however, one of the African slaves, Cinque, succeeds in taking his chains off, and he and his party kill their enemies on the ship. Nevertheless, while they are trying to go back to their country, they are captured and put on trial in America because of the stratagem of two Spanish crewmen whose lives Cinque and his party spare

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