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Review Of Amistad
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In April of 1839, a group of militant Portuguese abducted a group of 53 Africans, and shipped them to Havana, Cuba. In June of 1839, the Africans were purchased as slaves by four Spaniards and put on the schooner La Amistad (Spanish for “the friendship”) for a voyage to Principe, an isl ....
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....sident John Quincy Adams (Sir Anthony Hopkins), who comes out of political retirement to fight the African’s side in the United States Supreme Court. The Spanish men have claimed the Africans as their property and
others claimed that they had saved La Amistad in the cargo contained therein, and the Africans were American property, determining a salvage amount given to them (under maritime law of salvage, those who saved a sea vessel were entitled to a portion of the value they saved). The .... |
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