My View on Amistad

MY VIEW OF AMISTAD

What   stood   out   to   me   the   most   in   the   story   of   Amistad   was the journey that   the   Africans   had   to   endure.   Also   how   they   as   people   were treated   how   Cinqu’e   had   the   strength   and   courage   him   and   the   others   to   freedom.

The   extremely   long   journey   that   the   Africans   had   to   go   through   just   to   be   free   again   traveling   the   long   distances   from   their   home   in   Africa   to   America.   Going   through   things   in   their   like   hunger   and   death   journey   that   should   have   never   happened   but   did.   I don’t   think   that   I   could   imagine   being   taken   away   from   my   home   and   thrown   into   a   environment   that   I   do   not   know   nor   am   I comfortable   with   or   understand.   So   what   a   journey   they   must   have   to   endured,   especially   after   how   they   were treated.  

It’s   so   hard   for   me   to   wrap   my   mind   around   how   they   were   treated.   Animals were treated better then Cinqu’e and the Africans were.   Could   you   really   imagine   your   self   going   hungry   because   your   ``owners``   would   not   feed   you.   Watching others around you die of sickness or being killed?   And wondering   am   I next?   Or having   to   ask   your   self   if   your   going   to   survive.   I could not nor would I want to.

But   through   all   they   had   to   go   through   the Africans   still   had   courage   because   they   knew   where   they   came   from   and   knew   they   had   to   make   it   back.   The Africans   had   the   strength   to   keep   pushing   forward   and   they   fought   it   till   the   end.   And my god!   We   know   the   Africans   had endurance.   Because   no   matter   how   they   were   treated   they   kept   there   head   held   high   .Even   when   it   seemed   they   were   fighting   a losing   battle,     they   were   not   because   they   won   there   ``FREEDOM``   back!!!!!!