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Question - How many women and children were aboard the Amistad and made it out alive? It struck me as odd that there would be young and female survivors of this entire ordeal - given Cinque's account of killing off/starving/drowning the weak and less profitable slaves on the original journey, tacked onto the fact that the majority of slaves in the trade were men in the first place. - Elle Weaver | Question - How many women and children were aboard the Amistad and made it out alive? It struck me as odd that there would be young and female survivors of this entire ordeal - given Cinque's account of killing off/starving/drowning the weak and less profitable slaves on the original journey, tacked onto the fact that the majority of slaves in the trade were men in the first place. - Elle Weaver | ||
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| + | Answer: I thought there were a few women and children survivors that made it onto the Amistad. As for why they would be there in the first place, I imagine, is because (with a mix of men and women) slaveowners would hope that they would procreate and then their children would become the property of the slave-owners who bought them (free slaves basically).--Jackie Reed | ||
So we know that they really appealed to the District Court, and didn't replace the judge, and that they appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, too. But what's the deal with the trial? It looks like Adams gives a little, powerful speech based on Cinque's words...nothing close to an 8.5-hour oratory. Are we supposed to assume that the arguments made in lesser courts are also made before the Supreme Court before what we see, or that Adams's little bit was all it took for the court to hear the case and rule on it? -Whitney H. | So we know that they really appealed to the District Court, and didn't replace the judge, and that they appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, too. But what's the deal with the trial? It looks like Adams gives a little, powerful speech based on Cinque's words...nothing close to an 8.5-hour oratory. Are we supposed to assume that the arguments made in lesser courts are also made before the Supreme Court before what we see, or that Adams's little bit was all it took for the court to hear the case and rule on it? -Whitney H. | ||
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| + | Wait. Whitney. Did you really want the movie to go on for another 8.5 hrs? Baldwin gave a speech and testimony (repeating mostly what he had already argued in lower courts) over a period of two days, but ALL of that happened off camera. I think we should cut the filmmakers some slack on summary of Adams' real speech. --Jackie | ||
== 2 Film's relationship to current scholarship or to primary sources from the time == | == 2 Film's relationship to current scholarship or to primary sources from the time == | ||
