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The theme or reason for telling the story.
A way to convey that enslaved people are humans?
How the Supreme Court settle this famous case.
What is they set the Africans free and let them go home.
Cinque
The man who led the revolt aboard the ship?
Havana Cuba
The port where the Amistad originally set sail?
Friendship
What is the translation of the word "Amistad" from Spanish to English?
Murder and Piracy
What charges were levied against the captives?
Montauk Point, Long Island, New York?
Where was the Amistad captured after the revolt?
The length of time it took on a slave ship to travel from West Africa to the New World in the 1800s.
What is 10 weeks?
He became the translator.
Who is James Covey?
The government wouldn't accept the decision and appealed it.
Why did the case go to the Supreme Court?
They did the kidnapping in Africa.
Who are other Africans?
The slave ship that transported the captives from Lomboka to Cuba?
What is the Tecora?
This was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were shipped to the "New World" as part of the Atlantic slave trade.
What is the Middle Passage?
They were citizens in Africa and also the Declaration of Independence stated that all men were equal under the law.
What is the argument that they are not legally slaves?
Most of the Supreme Court Judges were Southern slave owners and they didn't speak English or Spanish. They spoke the Mende language.
What is why the Africans were at such a disadvantage in this case?
Copper, brass pans, and guns?
What are the types of goods used to purchase and enslave Africans?
Ruiz & Montez, Lt. Gedney of the USS Washington, Queen Isabella II of Spain
What three groups were trying to claim the Africans as property?
The first judge was from the south and President Van Buren needed southerners votes.
What were the political implications of this case?
He feared re-election, was worried about a civil war, and feared retaliation from Spain.
Why President Van Buren wanted the captives to lose their case?
Why did President Van Buren change the judge?
Roger Baldwin was winning the case for the Africans.
Textiles, Cotton, and Spices
What types of goods, Spanish would get for the slaves according to the Triangular Trade?
Where the Lomboka Slave Fortress was located.
Where is Sierra Leone?
What region on the continent of Africa did most of the slaves come from?
Where is Western Africa?
He learned to count from 1 to 10 in the Mende language. Then went to the docks repeating the #'s until they found the translator.
How did Josiah Gibbs (part of the Amistad Committee) break the communication problem with the captives and why was this important?
When Cinque sees these in President Adams’ residence, they reminded him of home.
What are African Violets?