EXTRA CREDIT: Video or Book on The Amistad

amistad3.jpgby Joyce Annette Barnes, D’Arcy Adrian-Vallance, and Evadne Adrian-Vallance
amistad2.jpgby Walter Dean Myers

 amistad.jpgThis film is rated R for violent content and nudity.    I highly recommend that parents view the film prior to allowing their children to watch it.  You as parents may decide to allow your child to watch the entire video, excerpts, or none – all of which is perfectly acceptable.  The film in my opinion is a good visual representation of the accounts of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the only US Supreme Court Case of African piracy brought to trial that ended in this fashion.

All can be obtained by renting from a video store, the public library, or purchasing at any video or book store. 

After viewing the video or reading the book, students should reply to the following: How did reading this book or viewing the video add to your undderstanding of the evens that took place durig the time of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.  Give specific examples from the book or video to detail your answer.
 
 

 

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  Daria R.
Comment on November 17th, 2008.

It definetly helped me understand how slaves were treated. For example how many chains were in the bottom of the ship or how that one time the captors keep beating thoose two men and there was a puddle of blood around them. All these thing made me cringe but some how I watched the whole movie.

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