LA AMISTAD MOVIE
1. What is the movie about? Summarize the plot of the film mentioning the main characters. The movie is about the real slave ship called "La Amistad" which travelled from Cuba to the Unites States in 1839 . Cinqué , a black man from the ship and the protagonist of the film, took over the ship with other slaves. The navigators sailed into Unites States territories where the American Navy captured them. The Africans find themselves in a legal battle there without knowing nothing of that lenguage. Holabird brings charges of piracy and murder, Forsyth , represents the claim of Queen Isabella II of Spain that the Africans are slaves and are property of Spain based on a treaty. A lawyer named Roger Sherman Baldwin , hired by the abolitionist Lewis Tappan and his black associate Theodore Joadson , decides to defend the Africans. Baldwin proves through documents fo...