The blistering salt water invades your wounds. Wounds created by the strange men who crammed you and every last one of your people, your family, your friends, aboard this wooden prison. One may be considered to have luck on his side if he was not brutally killed in the next day. Although, would it be considered so? Lucky to face the men and watch as they slowly greeted death to your comrade, and then yanked him back on the brink of death so he would be able to suffer more in the following days. This is only a small sliver of one of the worst things the world was responsible for, slavery, the uprooting of people from their homes, and from their families, only to have to fight for survival on the journey to a strange place where they were then forced to work in labor endusive plantations. Moreover, director Steven Spielberg managed to allow people today to catch a glimpse of what slavery was like, by following forty-four Africans in their battle to return home, in the 1997 movie, Amistad. Cinque, was the leader of the forty-four, they were wrongfully abducted from their villages in Africa, and then shipped to auction. ALong their way they managed to over take the ship, but they…show more content… During the movie Amistad, President Quincy stated, “This man is black...Now, if he were white, he wouldn't be standing before this court fighting for his life” (Spielberg). Therefore, not only then where the people of color discriminated, treated differently, and excluded, but they are still facing some of these today. Although it is on a much lower level of violence, there are still outbreaks of said discrimination. Thus, since the African civilians were going to be treated differently throughout history before and after 1839, when the movie took
