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The essay that I am writing is about a movie that is call: “The Amistad”. The director of this movie is call Steven Spielberg, he is a director, productor and a screenwriter he is so famous because of his movies and his work. Many of his movies are: The Holocaust, The Amistad, Shark, Close encounters of the third kind and such. His work has impressed many people and audiences. The historical setting of the movie is 1800, when the slaves were captured by Tecora (The slave ship sellery), to 1841 when they were free back to Africa in Sierra Leone in Africa. There were African people which were black in the coast of Sierra Leone. In Africa, close from a tribe there was a slave ship sellery called Tecora in which the slaves that were captured were prisoners. In that tribe there was a leader called Joseph Cinque (He had a wife and a son). Cinque was captured by Tecora which was managed by some Spanish men. After they were captured, they were taken to a big wooden ship. They were taking them to the states of he south but in the middle of the trip the slaves break their prisons and …show more content…

Cinque was either strong and wise because he bases his life in strength and his believes so I think that he was strong fiscally and mentally. Roger Baldwin never gave up, every time the president of the United States (Martin Van Bauren) change the court for the slaves to stay he anyways keep trying to win the case. He was the lawyer that try to help the Africans to be free. He worked with Theodore Joadson. John Quincy Adams was the president of the United States (the states of the North) before this story and he helped Roger Baldwin and Theodore Joadson so set free the slaves. John Quincy Adams was the son of John Adams, John Adams did the Independence signature. Martin Van Bauren was the president of the United States (states of the North). In this movie he wanted the slaves to

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