Amistad

today in history we watched part of a film called Amistad. it was about slaves being sold by other Africans to make money and get equipment to fight wars against other African tribes. the story follows one of the guys who is captured by another tribe and is sold to the Americans. it shows how brutal the white people were to them, they had a priest "purify" them when they got on board. they whipped them around and some guy just shot one for no reason. then it showed them getting the slaves being thrown on the ground. they were punching and kicking and throwing the slaves around. very very unnecessary. then some slave lady has a baby on the ship and then commits suicide by falling off the boat with the baby. yeah some two guys were getting whipped while that happened. i think it was the main slave guy's wife or something. i think in the circumstances they were in i would have done the same. it looked pretty bad and i bet if was way worse than that.