CRM 1301 Lecture 17: Amistad
7 Apr 2016
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Africans think catholicism is entertainment, think the people are going to be sick and are miserable. Just like the slaves, they did not commit any crimes but are being prosecuted and tortured, captured and bound like jesus. After the trial"s verdict, the africans hold up the bible. Called villains before the law, not humans. They don"t even take them seriously, even after cinqu told them his story. People fighting over ownership of slaves (the queen of spain included), considered property and goods. Say slaves know stop, fetch, carry as if they are animals: equality debated. How they don"t need to know the language, because they are not real humans. Prosecutor"s attitude towards cinqu and the translator. Referring to slaves as cargo, just shipped off the boat. Blacks, wanting to escape hulks, decided to attack the ship to go back to africa.
