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Colonialism

Colonialism

Steven Spielberg's "Amistad" is centered on the legal status of
Africans caught and brought to America on a Spanish slave ship. The
Africans rise up and begin a mutiny against their captors on the high
seas and are brought to trial in a New England court. The court must
decide if the Africans are actually born as slaves or if they were
illegally brought from Africa. If the Africans were born as slaves
then they would be guilty of murder, but if their being brought here
from Africa is illegal, they had the right to defend themselves. This
was not such a simple issue since the slave trade had been banned by
treaties at the time of the Amistad incident in 1839. The movie starts
on board the Amistad. On the ship the leader of the Africans, Cinque,
frees himself from his chains and frees the rest of his tribe. They
slaves are being taken from a Havana slave market to another
destination in Cuba. The two men who bought them are spared, and
promise to take the slaves back to Africa. Instead, the Amistad is
guided into US waters, and the Africans end up being tried in a New
England court. Luckily, it is a Northern court. If the slaves had
ended up in the South

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