The Amistad Conflict

Amistad conflict In January 1839, 53 Africans were kidnapped from East Africa and sold Spain's slave trade. They were then placed on a Spanish slave ship to Havana in Cuba. In Havana, Africans were listed as local Cuban slaves and auctioned by two Spaniards, Don Joselhus and Don Pedro Montez. They plan to relocate the slaves to another area of ​​Cuba. These slaves were tied up and loaded onto a cargo ship Amistad ("Friendship" in Spanish) for a short coastal voyage.

Amistad Mutiny, (2 July 1839), a slave rebellion occurred in the slave ship Amistad near the coast of Cuba and had important political and legal implications for the abolition of the United States. After the US Supreme Court released the rebels in 1841, rebels fell amazing victories. Committee (established in 1846) established to protect slaves who later developed into America missionary church

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).