Amistad
1) Amistad is a movie about a slave revolt that took place aboard the ship La Amistad, and the legal actions that took place afterwards. In the opening scene of the movie, Joseph Cinque (an African slave) is leading a slave revolt that gives the slaves control of the ship and kills most of the ship's crew. When the slaves take over, they force the ship's captain to sail them back to Africa but he tricks them and takes them to the United States where the slaves are captured and put in jail. The group of slaves are charged with revolting and murder and there is also property claims over the slaves. Queen Isabella of Spain, the captain of La Amistad, and the people who captured the slaves once in the United States are all claiming to own the slaves. Roger Baldwin is the lawyer that is brought in to defend the slaves by abolitionists. In order to talk to the slaves, Baldwin has to find a translator that speaks both english and mende, the language that the African slaves speak. Cinque,......
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