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Summary of Amistad

The movie Amistad is about a group of Africans that were betrayed by their own neighbors by captured them and then selling and trading them illegally with a group of Spanish contrabandists. Then they where introduced to a slave ship and send them to Cuba where they would be sold. During the trip they were mistreated by raping the women, lashing them, make them starved, and also some of them were killed by throwing the to the water.
After being sold, the one that nobody bought were introduced to the boat again to sell them in U.S. During the trip one of the Africans loose himself of the chains and liberated the others, and make a revolt where they killed the Spaniards but leave two alive to take...

Posted by: Leonard Herriman

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