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I agree with Erin. This case does not change anything with slavery in the United States. It only discusses the slave trade across the Atlantic. Of course they want to make it dramatic my making this seem like the turning point of slavery in the United States. -- Justine R. | I agree with Erin. This case does not change anything with slavery in the United States. It only discusses the slave trade across the Atlantic. Of course they want to make it dramatic my making this seem like the turning point of slavery in the United States. -- Justine R. | ||
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| + | After watching this movie, I definitely saw some things that were historically accurate. Some other things were definitely not or I just need clarification. In the part where Cinque met with Baldwin in the yard at the jail so Balwin could find out where the slaves were from, it seemed that Cinque could understand some of what Baldwin was saying, or at least the general idea. Did that all come from the drawings in the dirt Baldwin made? Or did Cinque suddenly understand English just for that brief period of time? Also, I felt that Lewis Tappan was not very involved in the movie. It mainly focused on Baldwin and Joadson, and even then, just as Deborah said above, I don't think that a Black man like Joadson would have been so well accepted. It was interesting because Baldwin was the one being attacked for defending the Mende slaves, whereas Joadson seemed quite accepted in the society. -- Alex M. | ||
There were a few things I noticed in the movie that were inaccurate and the first the absence of the term “black Ladinos” which is what the Cubans called the slaves. I thought this could have been an important element in the few court cases regarding the slaves in the movie. Also, it seemed that Lewis Tappan was made to be a little less prominent than he was in reality. I thought he was more active in the case, and he seemed to take somewhat of a back seat in the movie. Another thing was what happened to Cinque after the final verdict of the Supreme Court. In the movie, they claimed he returned right away to Africa and back to his family, but he actually spent some time in Connecticut, and then later returned to Africa. -afrisk | There were a few things I noticed in the movie that were inaccurate and the first the absence of the term “black Ladinos” which is what the Cubans called the slaves. I thought this could have been an important element in the few court cases regarding the slaves in the movie. Also, it seemed that Lewis Tappan was made to be a little less prominent than he was in reality. I thought he was more active in the case, and he seemed to take somewhat of a back seat in the movie. Another thing was what happened to Cinque after the final verdict of the Supreme Court. In the movie, they claimed he returned right away to Africa and back to his family, but he actually spent some time in Connecticut, and then later returned to Africa. -afrisk | ||
