Amistad

Amistad Steven Spielbergs Amistad is centered on the legal status of Africans caught and brought to America on a Spanish slave ship. The Africans rise up and initiate out a mutiny against their captors on the high seas and are brought to ladder in a New England court. The court mustiness resolve if the Africans are actually born as slaves or if they were lawlessly brought from Africa. If the Africans were born as slaves then they would be guilty of murder, however if their being brought here from Africa is illegal, they had the right to defend themselves.

This was not such(prenominal) a simple issue since the slave trade had been criminalise by treaties at the time of the A mistad incident in 1839. The motion picture starts on board the Amistad. On the ship the leader of the Africans, Cinque, frees himself from his restrict and frees the rest of his tribe. They slaves are being taken from a heavy(p) of Cuba slave market to another destination in Cuba. The 2 men who bought them are spared, and promise to take the slaves back to Afri...If you end to get a full essay, order it on our website: OrderEssay.net

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