Amistad and Last of the Mohicans
Amistad is a 1997 historical drama directed by Steven Spielberg that focuses on the resolution of the 1839 landmark case in which a group of illegally obtained African slaves mutinied against their "owners" and took command of the ship on which they were travelling. The film centers on the legal battle surrounding the slaves and focuses especially on determining who owns the slaves captured by a United States ship and if they can be claimed as slaves at all.
In the film, the slaves aboard the ship La Amistad rebel against their captors for a number of reasons, primarily because they want to go home. As the "slaves'" story begins to unfold, it is revealed that many of them had been kidnapped from their homes in Africa by other Africans who were looking to make money by betraying their fellow countrymen. These kidnapped people's were then taken to a slave market and purchased by slave traders who operated the ship Tecora. While aboard the Tecora, Cinque, who is highlighted in the film, and his fellow abductees, which included men, women, and children, were subjected to the horrors of the Middle Passage. At one point, the crew of the Tecora throws a group of their captives overboard to either lighten their load or to make amends for a miscalculation in rations, as is suggested in the film by Captain Fitzgerald. Upon the Tecora's arrival in Cuba, the remaining, surviving slaves are bought by Ruiz and Montes, who hope to illegally smuggle their captives and sell them for profit, falsely claiming that they are Cuban-born slaves and thus legitimate slaves -- which they are not. After having been passed on to another set of Spanish ship owners, Cinque not only fears for his life after having witnessed the atrocities aboard the Tecora, but he also yearns to be free and to return to his family and home in Sierra Leone, from where he was abducted.
Because of this innate desire to be free, Cinque and his fellow abductees...
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