The movie "Amistad" is based on a true story. This tells us the story about some African slaves who were sold by their own countrymen to acquire weapons and money. During the time of translation to Spain‚ the crews rebels and kill almost all their Spanish captors. African slaves took charge of the crew to return to their homes‚ but they were discovered by American troops‚ who taken them as prisoners leading them to United States to determine what they would do with them. Upon arrival the slaves to
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The Amistad movie is about a group of West Africans captured as slaves to America. Led by Sengbe Pieh‚ who was renamed as Joseph Cinque by the Spaniards who bought his later decided to revolt against his captors. The movie started at the scene where cinque was trying to free himself from his chains. Him and his fellow slaves managed to get control of the ship by killing many of the cruise men living two of then alive to guide then back to Africa. They fought hard to stay alive‚ but unfortunately
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D’voya L. Wilks Wilks 1 Carlos Pettigrew AP Language November 27‚ 2012 Amistad Assignment The speaker of the film “Amistad” is David Franzoni. Since this fact was not identified verbally during any part of the movie‚ and I was not able to view the credits‚ I went to the World Wide Web to find the author for the movie. The subject of the film “Amistad” would prove to be freedom and everyone’s right to the acquisition to such freedom despite opposition. This is proven throughout the
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Maria Ramirez Period 7 Word count 602 The Amistad The Amistad was a significant historical event that eventually led to important outcomes like the awareness of slavery and the encouragement of public opinion. The Amistad was a Spanish slave ship used in the 1800’s. On June 27‚ 1839‚ The Amistad left the port of Havana‚ Cuba with Captain Ransom Ferrer and two passengers‚ Jose Ruiz and Pedro Montez. Along with fifty-three African American slaves from the Mende tribe in Sierra Leone‚ “Ruiz had forty-nine
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Jonathan Jones History 11 8/12/07 Movie Review The truth about the middle passage and slavery is brought to light in the movie "Amistad." In "Amistad" Joseph Cinque and fellow tribesmen from Africa are captured and put aboard a slave ship. Cinque and his companions organize a revolt aboard the ship and they take it over. Unfortunately when they try to head back to Africa they are captured and put in jail. Cinque and his people demand freedom from their captors. The ownership issue of the
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what up woOn June 28‚ 1839‚ the Spanish slave schooner Amistad set sail from Havana on a routine delivery of human cargo. On a moonless night‚ after four days at sea‚ the captive Africans rose up‚ killed the captain‚ and seized control of the ship. They attempted to sail to a safe port‚ but were captured by the U.S. Navy and thrown into jail in Connecticut. Their legal battle for freedom eventually made its way to the Supreme Court‚ where their cause was argued by former president John Quincy Adams
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Amistad‚ directed by Steven Spielberg‚ displays the fierce determination of 53 African abductees and their compelling desire to return home. Led by Cinqué (or Sengbe)‚ a man longing to see his wife and son in Sierra Leone again‚ the men aboard the ship La Amistad rebelled against the Spanish slave traders who guarded them from escape. Using sugar cane knives stolen from cargo aboard the ship‚ the Africans defeated the gun-wielding Spaniards. With ambitions of returning to West Africa‚ they eventually
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Historical Movie I like to watch historical movies‚ because they are interesting‚ you don’t need to read a book‚ and in the movies a lot of cool effects. Hollywood did a lot of historical movie with really cool special effects‚ but I don’t like them movies‚ because they always lie. I mean in old movies‚ like 300 spartans and another they create movie like was in the book‚ but another movies about world wars and another they lie. Hollywood create movie where America is the main and America always
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La Amistad movie a movie released in 1997 was a true movie story based on slavery life it took about how slavery was managed and about the slaves of La Amistad ship‚ La Amistad ship is a ship which carried slaves from other countries to the U.S. The historical setting is in Connecticut‚ a place in the U.S. The event took place in the 1800s. At the beginning of the movie Cinque the leader of a tribe was in LA Amistad ship then he managed to scaped from the spanish crewmen ‚ slaves force 2 spanish
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Amistad is a 1997 American historical drama film based on the true story of the mutiny that occurred aboard La Amistad (Spanish for “friendship”) in 1839. The ship is traveling from Cuba to the United States and has a cargo of Africans captured in Sierra Leone and held at the Lomboko slave fortress. It begins with Cinqué‚ a Mende tribe leader‚ freeing himself‚ leading to the massacre of the entire crew‚ save the two Spanish navigators. Instead of sailing the Africans back to Sierra Leone‚ the cunning
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