Amistad is a though provoking documentary on real life events that took place during the period in American History between the Declaration of Independence through the Civil War while America was still deciding who they were as a country.
The moviefs main character was an African tribesman named Cinque. Cinque lived a happy life with his clan, until his village was invaded by a more powerful group of militant Africans. These Africans captured Cinquefs entire family and clan, and they were exported into the slave trade. They are taken to Cuba by way of the most horrific traveling conditions in which fifty slaves were bound with rocks and thrown overboard when provisions got low. When they arrived in Cuba Cinquefs tribe was still in shock from the horrendous events that had occurred during there travel to Cuba. Once in Cuba the Africans were immediately sold into slavery and placed in the bottom of a slave ship known as the Amistad. Next they were stripped of their......
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