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What happened to the women and children from La Amistad that we see at the beginning of the film? They just disappear. - Sarah Richardson | What happened to the women and children from La Amistad that we see at the beginning of the film? They just disappear. - Sarah Richardson | ||
| + | I could be wrong about this, but I believe the linguist in the film would have actually been called a philologist. Nitpicky, I know. – Wesley Weeks | ||
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| + | The film portrayed the British in an exceedingly good light. While they had of course outlawed slavery at this point, racism was not absent from there culture, nor is it now. The film portrays them as completely anti racism simply because of their ban on slavery. – Wesley Weeks | ||
== 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 == | ||
