Abolitionist Transition From The Movie ‘La Amistad’

Abolitionist transition from the movie ‘La Amistad’

The film "Friendship" takesThis murders several of their crew, leaving only two of their Spanish slaves alive.

Upon arriving in the United States by white men who captured them (American guards), slaves must be criminally prosecuted;For his defense, two abolitionist men hire a lawyer: Roger S. Baldwin, who tries to investigate and seek evidence in his favor to win the trial, even taking into account that he faces a mostly racist jury, which tends to comply with standards of the Spanish reign.

In the first of the judgments, the lawyer tries to expose the fallacies to which the theory of the opposition case is based, where although they establish a place other than the origin of the people who are taking them to trial (slaves), specifically establish that they come from Cuba, when in reality they are from an African tribe and victims of slave traffic

However, the judge demands that the evidence are based on circumstantial constructions and requires the major probative support lawyer to support what the slave defender raises.

In the course of the film, slaves make known through a translator the relationship of the facts in order to have greater factual and legal support when it comes to trial to execute their due defense.

One of the resources that the lawyer has to verify the state of necessity and the legitimate defense in which the defendants can be criminally excluded is the manifesto found within the boat where it could be found that 50 people were thrown into the sea, whatthat would reveal that slaves acted to save their own life.

In a subsequent trial, the judge establishes that slaves are originally from Africa, so he declares that the statement of ownership of slaves is unfounded, so he orders the arrest of lords Ruíz and Montes and immediately orders to release slavesand that these are redirected again to their place of origin in Africa.

Again, the case is taken to the Supreme Court of the United States, where a high experience and knowledge lawyer executes this time.

Where it establishes that it is not a case where the property of slaves is clearly debated, if not of the very nature of man, of his right to freedom. In this trial, the letters sent between the Secretary of State and the Queen of Spain, where the queen itself speaks of the incompetence of the courts, since these are based on being impartial, not as she likes, condemning slavesDue to his slave and racist ideology.

The defense establishes that the natural state of man is freedom, what is proclaimed regardless of their skin color, where slaves contrary to having a vile or reckless action, executed this action because it was the only option to save their own life.

In the development of the same, the judge in charge orders the freedom of slaves so that they are returned to their homes by legitimizing that they are human beings and not objects that are signed under a domain title.