Oct 13th 2022
RUTH CARTER FILM SERIES – AMISTAD
@ The Dusable Black History Museum and Education Center
740 E 56th Pl, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, October 13th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
A 1997 Americanhistorical dramafilm directed bySteven Spielberg, based on the events in 1839 aboard the Spanish slave ship La Amistad, during which Mende tribesmen abducted for the slave trade managed to gain control of their captors’ ship off the coast of Cuba, and the international legal battle that followed their capture by the Washington, a U.S. revenue cutter. The case was ultimately resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1841.
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