The scene in the movie that affected me the most was the one where they were trying to lighten the load of the Amistad. They took what appeared to be a big rock and anchored a chain to it. They threw this rock overboard. At this point I had no idea what was going to happen, but the following scene portrayed the horror. The men in charge of the Amistad chose fifty men and women …showed first 75 words of 298 total…

…showed last 75 words of 298 total…for some people. These people were treated worse than animals and witnessed incredible horrors. These images they would re-live thousands of times over, images that would not allow them to sleep at night. I myself cannot forget those images and the emotions that they invoked in me and all I did was watch a movie. I cannot image how these people lived through this and kept their hope alive after enduring the atrocities behind them.