Amistad and Jacobs

This sentence is written in the Declaration of Independence and contains the most powerful words in history. "We believe that these truths are trivial and that all humans are equal ..." (US 1776). They have pride and honesty in the hearts and minds of most Americans. However, these wonderful and meaningful words written in 1776 were shadowed by shame, sorrow and betrayal. Because men, women and children were rejected as equal people because of the skin color.

"Freedom Schooner Amistad" is headquartered in Amistad America, Inc., New Haven, Connecticut. The mission of operating vessels is to educate the public about slavery, abolition, discrimination, and the history of citizenship. The home port is New Haven where the Amistad trial took place. It also travels to the port city to pursue educational opportunities. It is also the state flagship and high ship of Connecticut. The ship made several memorial voyages: once in 2007 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the abolishment of British slave trade in the UK (1807) and the United States (1808), and the tenth anniversary of the launch in 2000 Memorial voyage to celebrate. Mysterious port It is in the mysterious seaport for two years from 2010, it has been mainly used for maritime training and film production in Maine province.

Amistad is a historical drama supervised by Steven Spielberg in 1997. Based on the true story of the slave ship La Manistad in 1839, members of the Mende family who were kidnapped for slave trade dominated their prisoner ships to leave the coast of Cuba and the income of the United States. After the international legal struggle, the cut was caught by Washington. The case was finally resolved by the US Supreme Court in 1841. Morgan Freeman, Nigel Hawthorne, Anthony Hopkins, Dimon Housou, Matthew McConaughey starred. The play of David Franzoni is based on Historian Howard Jones's "Rebellion of Amistad: The Legend of Slave riot and its abolition, law and diplomacy" (1987).

The most comprehensive explanation of Cinque is included in "Slave Mutiny: The Scholter Amistad" by William A. Owens (1953), Amistad Collection of New Haven Historical Society, Court case record of the Supreme Court, Personal Document Research, and American Missionaries Records of dramatic accounting paper based on association records Cinque and Amistad rebellion in the context of slave trade and international efforts to suppress it, John R. Spears in American slave trade, "The story of Amist": its origin In 1967, a new introductory text was re-released with Daniel P. Mannix, Malcolm Cowley, Black Cargoes (1962), in Explanation of Growth and Suppression (1900). Modern records and literature are biographical sketches ... John W. Barber, can be found in the history of Amistad POWs ... .. There is also a trial account (1840). 4 (1936). □