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Amistad is a 1997 American historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the events in 1839 aboard the Spanish slave ship La Amistad, during which Mende tribesmen abducted for the slave trade managed to gain control of their captors' ship off the coast of Cuba, and the international legal battle that followed their capture by the ...
Dec 25, 1997 · Amistad is a film directed by Steven Spielberg based on the true story of a slave revolt on a Spanish ship in 1839. The film follows the legal battle of the captured Africans to gain their freedom in the U.S. courts, with the help of abolitionist lawyer John Quincy Adams.
La Amistad was a 19th-century two-masted schooner of about 120 feet (37 m). In 1839 it was owned by Ramón Ferrer, a Spanish national. Strictly speaking, La Amistad was not a typical slave ship, as it was not designed like others to traffic massive numbers of enslaved Africans, nor did it engage in the Middle Passage of Africans to the Americas ...
Dec 12, 1997 · Schindler's strategies are ingenious and suspenseful, and lead to a more gripping and powerful film than the legal tactics in “Amistad,” where lawyers in powdered wigs try to determine the origin of men whose language they do not speak.Entirely apart from the moral issues involved, “Schindler's List” works better as narrative because it ...
Dec 10, 1997 · Based on a true story, Amistad depicts the struggle of 53 Africans who escape from a Spanish slave ship and face a legal battle for their freedom in America. The film features an ensemble cast, including Anthony Hopkins as John Quincy Adams, and was nominated for four Oscars.
In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque (Djimon Hounsou) leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising.
This Steven Spielberg-directed exploration into a long-ago episode in African-American history recounts the trial that followed the 1839 rebellion aboard the Spanish slave ship Amistad and ...
