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The Summary of the Movie Amistad

Amistad

     The story of the Amistad is quite a tale of Freedom. The movie depicts how the situation in American and Europe was at the time. The movie opens on the ship the Amistad in a great storm at sea with an African who breaks lose of his shekels with a nail. He begins to free most of the slaves around him from their shekels. They break into boxes gathering weapons and freeing others. Then the Africans kill all of the crew except for two which they did not kill in believing that the two men would take them back to Africa.
     The two men began sailing to America where the Africans went ashore and began to get water out of a near by lake. They went back to the ship and an American ship was just passing when they got back. The American ship had taken them captive and proceeded to take the ship Amistad to port.
     Once at the port the Africans that were aboard the Amistad where shekels and take prisoner by the United States Government. A great court battle would come of this. It would be of who owned them and if they were truly free. At the time you could not take any slaves from Africa instead they had to have been born on a plantation. The two men from earlier in the story said that the slaves were from Cuba, and in that case they would have gotten to sell the slaves because you can not take slaves from African but you can from Cuba. Along with the two men the Queen of Spain said that the slaves where hers, the captain of the ship that found the Amistad said that they were his.
     The court battle had began. The whole world was watching and the southern states were protesting that if the slaves went free...

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