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The movie that I choose to review is Amistad. I think this movie would be very
appropriate with our course and subject. Set in 1839, a group of Africans take over a
Spanish slave ship: directed by Steven Spielberg. Two abolitionists, Lewis Tappan
(Stellan Skarsgard) and Theodore Joadson (Morgan Freeman) hire a real estate attorney
Roger Baldwin (Mathew McConaughey), who is convinced he has the key to set African
free. But pro-slavery President Martin Van Buren (Nigel Hawthorne) is on the other side.
The case goes to Supreme Court where President John Quincy Adams (Anthony
Hopkins), inspired by the moral stature of an African name Cinque (Djimon Hounsou),
defense freedom.
AMISTAD begins with the ship which allowed Cinque to free himself and then other slave
on board. Then they attack their Spanish captors, killing violently all but two sailors so
that they can sail back to Africa. But they end up in New York and American sailors
capture them and taken to......

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