MY VIEW OF AMISTAD
What stood out to me the most in the story of Amistad was the journey that the Africans had to endure. Also how they as people were treated how Cinqu’e had the strength and courage him and the others to freedom.
The extremely long journey that the Africans had to go through just to be free again traveling the long distances from their home in Africa to America. Going through things in their like hunger and death journey that should have never happened but did. I don’t think that I could imagine being taken away from my home and thrown into a environment that I do not know nor am I comfortable with or understand. So what a journey they must have to endured, especially after how they were treated.
It’s so hard for me to wrap my mind around how they were treated. Animals were treated better then Cinqu’e and the Africans were. Could you really imagine your self going hungry because your “owners“ would not feed you. Watching others around you die of sickness or being killed? And wondering am I next? Or having to ask your self if your going to survive. I could not nor would I want to.
But through all they had to go through the Africans still had courage because they knew where they came from and knew they had to make it back. The Africans had the strength to keep pushing forward and they fought it till the end. And my god! We know the Africans had endurance. Because no matter how they were treated they kept there head held high .Even when it seemed they were fighting a losing battle, they were not because they won there “FREEDOM“ back!!!!!!
The Term Paper on The African American Journey
The history of African Americans is, to a significant degree, the history of the United States. Black people accompanied the first explorers, and a black man was among the first to die in the American Revolution. The United States, with more than 38 million Blacks, has the eighth-largest Black population in the world. Despite the large number, Blacks in this country have had almost no role in ...
