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Amistad is a 1997 American historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the events in 1839 aboard the Spanish slave ship La Amistad, during which Mende tribesmen abducted for the slave trade managed to gain control of their captors' ship off the coast of Cuba, and the international legal battle that followed their capture by the Washington, a U.S. revenue cutter.
Mutiny on the Amistad. Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy (1987) is a history of a notable slave mutiny of 1839 and its aftermath, written by professor Howard Jones. The book explores the events surrounding the slave mutiny on the Spanish schooner La Amistad in 1839.
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v. t. e. United States v. Schooner Amistad, 40 U.S. (15 Pet.) 518 (1841), was a United States Supreme Court case resulting from the rebellion of Africans on board the Spanish schooner La Amistad in 1839. [1] It was an unusual freedom suit that involved international diplomacy as well as United States law.
Matthew McConaughey filmography. Matthew McConaughey is an American actor who made his breakthrough by starring in the Richard Linklater -directed coming of age comedy Dazed and Confused in 1993. [1][2] His first lead role was in the 1996 film adaptation of the John Grisham novel A Time to Kill. [3]
co-production with Parkes/MacDonald Productions; first film December 10, 1997: Amistad: co-production with HBO Pictures nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama: December 19, 1997: Mouse Hunt: co-production with Riche/Ludwig Productions
Joseph Cinqué. Sengbe Pieh (c. 1814 – c. 1879), [1] also known as Joseph Cinqué or Cinquez[2] and sometimes referred to mononymously as Cinqué, was a West African man of the Mende people [citation needed] who led a revolt of many Africans on the Spanish slave ship La Amistad in July 1839. After the ship was taken into custody by the US ...
La Amistad (pronounced [la a.misˈtað]; Spanish for Friendship) was a 19th-century two-masted schooner owned by a Spaniard living in Cuba.It became renowned in July 1839 for a slave revolt by Mende captives who had been captured and sold to European slave traders and illegally transported by a Portuguese ship from West Africa to Cuba, in violation of European treaties against the Atlantic ...
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