Amistad

Date Submitted: 03/11/2004 17:55:03
Category: / Entertainment / Movies & Film
Length: 1 pages (368 words)
In the beginning of the movie Amistad, slave hunters abducted a large group of Africans from Sierra Leone in Africa and shipped them to Cuba to be traded. The Africans were purchased by Spanish men and put aboard a ship called Amistad. This abduction and trade violated treaties that then existed, because you could not be bought or sold as a slave unless you were a natural-born slave, which they were not. During the journey …
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