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 of the africans’ capture and treatment aboard a portuguese slave ship operating illegally there are other threads in this movie of course: the legal efforts of
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Directed by : Tay Garnett
Written by :Willi Faulkner (story)Sam Hellman
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Directed by : Steven Spielberg
Written by : (WGA) David H. Franzoni (writte...
1. "It begins with a slave takeover of a Spanish ship, the Amistad, on the high seas north of Cuba in 1839."
2. "Led by Cinque Djimon Hounsou, the slaves slaughter the crew, leaving only the two slaveowners alive."
3. "Though the survivors promise at knifepoint to take the ships occupants back to Africa, the Amistad ends up off the New England coast of the USA."
4. "With the slaves captured and the ship impounded, the authorities are faced with a difficult question what to do with the ships human cargo?"
5. "This essentially legal question drives a film that is part history lesson, part courtroom drama, and all indictment of the evils of slavery."
6. "While the legal arguments over the slaves continue, we relive by flashback the horrors of the Africans capture and treatment aboard a Portuguese slave ship operating illegally along the coast of Sierra Leone."
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