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Please watch the film “Amistad,” a major motion picture film from 1997. It is about the 1839 rebellion of slaves aboard a slave trade ship. The mystery: were they legally slaves from Cuba that could be sold within the United States? Or, since importation of slaves from Africa had been outlawed in the U.S. since 1808, were these people being smuggled illegally, and therefore free to go home to Africa?

This film shows the awful experience of the Atlantic Slave Trade, but it also shows the debate about slavery in the U.S., and even features a former president, John Quincy Adams, who eventually becomes the lawyer for the slaves in the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • Answer, in two typed pages double-spaced:
  • 1) The scene on ship and in the prison help you to understand how diverse the Africans were – they were not all from the same tribe or nation. What details do you see that help you to understand that?
  • 2) Describe details of the treatment of Africans on ships in the Atlantic slave trade
  • 3) Who were all the different individuals who had a claim on the slaves on the Amistad?