Amistad

Amsted is based on a true story about an 1839 slave revolution. La Amistad is the Spanish word for “friendship”, ironically the ship had nothing to do with friends at all. The ship’s purpose was to illegally transport slaves to Spain.
The slaves were taken from a slave fortress and transported aboard the Tecora to a slave auction in Havana, Cuba. It is horrifying to see the conditions in which these slaves endured in their journey across the Atlantic Ocean. They were shackled and chained, thrown into an unsanitary, overcrowded cell and fed one hand-full of food a day. These conditions were so harsh that only a third of them actually survived to make the final de...