AMISTAD
... This painful and trying journey is very accurately depicted in Stephen Spielberg’s “Amistad.” Spielbergs "Amistad" is centered on the legal status of Africans caught and brought to America on a Spanish slave ship. ... This was not such a simple issue since the slave trade had been banned by treaties at the time of the Amistad incident in 1839. The movie starts on board the Amistad. ... Instead, the Amistad is guided into US waters, and the Africans end up being tried in a New England court. ... Together these men work to try to free the 53 slaves aboard the Amistad.