Amistad recreates the true story of a slave revolt and its legal consequences. Still, Steven Spielberg's drama makes some major historical changes.
Amistad is based on the true story of what happened on the Spanish slave ship La Amistad in 1839. With the schooner transporting Mende men who were kidnapped from Sierra Leone for the slave trade, the historical drama explores how these enslaved people gained control of the ship as it neared the coast of Cuba. Their struggle against their captors, their subsequent re-apprehension, and the legal battle around their status form the rest of the premise.
To quote Foner further, “It was perfectly possible in the 19th century to condemn the importation of slaves from Africa while simultaneously defending slavery and the flourishing slave trade within the United States”. Delving into this hypocrisy among the champions of freedom, sociologist Elmer P. Martin Jr.
Adams's unpredictable viewpoint toward slavery led abolitionists in his state to call him the “Madman of Massachusetts," according to Elmer P. Martin Jr. One of Amistad's biggest changes to the true story is portraying Adams as a figure who empathizes with the slaves. As Howard Jones's original book and other critics suggest, Adams's motives in the Amistad trial might have been more political than personal.
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