The story of Amistad began in the early 1800's when a group of enslaved men, women and children are captured and put aboard a slave ship, the Tecora. While, on the Tecora they endured brutality, sickness, and death. After a horrific journey to Cuba, they were sold as Cuban born slaves and then ...

The movie "Amistad" begins with Cinque, along with other Africans, packed onto a slave ship. The conditions on this ship are terrible, and many people die. The boat crosses the middle passage and docks in Cuba. Here the Africans are cleaned and thrown in a slave camp. While in the base, the Africa...

"AMISTAD" AMISTAD is a true story of the Spanish slave ship, La Amistad, whose "cargo" broke their chains in 1839 traveling towards the northwest coast of America. Much of the story involves the courtroom drama about the slave who led the revolt, Joseph Cinque (Djimon Hounso...

AMISTAD Amistad is a recreation of the true story about an 1839 slave revolt on a small Spanish schooner, La Amistad, ironically the Spanish word for "friendship." Spielberg does a great job in recreating the Amistad revolt that spurred a series of trials beginning in the lower courts of Connect...

No one ever thinks about what it actually takes to become free. There is one man that would do anything to become free and he was Joseph Cinque. Cinque would risk his life to help others and himself become free. He was a heroic, African slave leader that led a rebellion to become freed from slavery....