Short Summary Of Amistad By David Pesci
Imagine being plucked out of your everyday life and taken to a foreign land where you know you will spend the rest of your life doing a terrible job.#18 Amistad, the book by David Pesci, is a gruesome but true story that follows that narrative through the journey of illegally bought slaves on their odyssey from Africa through Cuba to America. In the spring of 1839 Singbe, Grabeau, and other tribesmen living in the heart of Africa were living their normal lives when they were captured and put on a ship. Life on the ship was gruesome slaves were given “Bastinados” often, given barely enough food and water to survive, and forced to stay in the ship's hold for hours at a time. The ship arrived in Cuba and the slaves were placed in barracoons these
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Singbe a rice farmer from the Mende tribe was tired of these ships and needed to escape. One night he escaped his chains and found a bundle of machetes and the slaves murdered nearly all the crew members. They then attempted to convince the remaining crew members with broken english from Bellywah to sail them back to Africa but the crewmembers Pepe Ruiz and Pedro Montes had other ideas. During the day Pepe would sail straight to Africa but at night he would turn the ship around and sail back to Connecticut where he believed he could bring justice to the escaped slaves and return his cargo to Havana. When the slaves landed they were quickly apprehended by slave patrol and a Court case was amuck to decide what would happen to the newcomers. With the rising issue of slavery between the north and south of the U.S. the case was gaining more publicity and it was tearing the nation apart. The slaveholders looked like they were gaining leverage in the case stating the slaves were only cargo and should automatically be returned to their homeland. But the tides turned when the slaves had sued the slave owners for “unruly living
Singbe a rice farmer from the Mende tribe was tired of these ships and needed to escape. One night he escaped his chains and found a bundle of machetes and the slaves murdered nearly all the crew members. They then attempted to convince the remaining crew members with broken english from Bellywah to sail them back to Africa but the crewmembers Pepe Ruiz and Pedro Montes had other ideas. During the day Pepe would sail straight to Africa but at night he would turn the ship around and sail back to Connecticut where he believed he could bring justice to the escaped slaves and return his cargo to Havana. When the slaves landed they were quickly apprehended by slave patrol and a Court case was amuck to decide what would happen to the newcomers. With the rising issue of slavery between the north and south of the U.S. the case was gaining more publicity and it was tearing the nation apart. The slaveholders looked like they were gaining leverage in the case stating the slaves were only cargo and should automatically be returned to their homeland. But the tides turned when the slaves had sued the slave owners for “unruly living