Film review of Amistad “The Friendship”.

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Introduction:  This film is basically about the suffering a group of African slaves had to undergo under the control of the white people. This movie is a magnificent based on happening after the Spanish slave ship ‘Amistad’ reached Connecticut in the year 1839. It stares Matthew McConaughey as the young lawyer Baldwin, Morgan Freeman as Theodore Joadson, Anthony Hopkins as John Quincy and Adams Djimon Hounsou as the slave's leader Cinque.

Conditions in Africa: the condition of people in Africa was not pleasant at this time. Hardly anyone in Africa was educated. Plenty of Africans were taken as slaves through the middle way passage. Africa was totally lost in the world of slavery. Poor Africa!!

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Middle Passage: nowhere in the annals of history is there such a traumatized experience like the one, which the Africans had to undergo through the middle way passage through the Atlantic sea. The middle passage was a triangular trade system. It embarked from the European ports, went to Africa, gathered slaves then went to new world to deliver the human cargo and then returned to the port of origin. Since it followed a triangular route, it was also called the slave triangle. La Amistad was one of the memorable mutinies led by African slave leader Cinque. 

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