AMISTAD: THE MOVIE
Storyline:
"Amistad" is a magnificent movie based on the happenings after the Spanish slave ship "Amistad" came to Connecticut in the year 1839. The film stars the talents of Matthew McConaughey as the young lawyer Baldwin, Morgan Freeman as Theodore Joadson, Anthony
Hopkins as John Quincy Adams and newcomer Djimon Hounsou as the slave's leader Cinque.
Baldwin and a well-off black, Joadson, work together to represent these 53 slaves on the Amistad. Though they first encounter language comminucation problems as the slaves only speak Mende, they are heard by an African residing in the town who becomes their translator. Cinque tells Baldwin and Joadson then of the terrors of the slave fortress off the coast of Portugal and the trading going on in Cuba. Through the talent of actor Djimon Hounsou, we become mesorized of his terrible tales.
After the slaves are tried free at a district court, they must however go to the supreme court where John Quincy Adams represents them. Through his brillant public speaking, he convinces the Supreme Court to free the slaves as all individuals
are free in the Declaration of Independance. The slaves go free, and choose to go back to Africa, but Cinque finds that his family has been sold into slavery and his town destroyed.
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Classic picture of Cinque on the "Amistad". 
Matthew McConaughey played brillantly as Baldwin. 
The slaves.
Anthony Hopkins as John Quincy Adams.
Some of the men in the movie in their period costumes. 
Morgan Freeman as Theodore Joadson.
Another pic of Matthew as Baldwin.
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