Click2Flicks - Amistad - Chapter 2 - The Slave Trade

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>AMISTAD</p> <p><font size=4>CHAPTER 2 - THE SLAVE TRADE</p></b></font> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">Portuguese slave hunters (called "slavers") illegally wrenched Sengbe and his fellow captives from their homes in February, 1839. Using inhuman <a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3a30000/3a32000/3a32400/3a32403r.jpg" target="_blank"><b>devices</b></a> to control their victims, slavers violated all existing treaties and laws. The <a href="http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/library/images/people/blockson.slave.trade.jpg" target="_blank"><b>practice</b></a> continued (even though it had been outlawed) due to demand for cheap labor in the "New World."</p> <p>During the <a href="http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/library/images/slavery/wad.ship.interior.jpg" target="_blank"><b>difficult journey</b></a> from Africa to Cuba, many of the captured people died. Fifty-three Africans (of Mandingo, Gbandi, Vai, Lorma, Kissi and Mendi heritage) were transferred to <i>La Amistad</i>, a ship chartered by two Spaniards who had "purchased" the captives at auction in Havana. Four children were among the <i>Amistad</i> Africans.</p> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="amistad_ch1.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER </a>     <a href="amistad_ch3.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </td> <td align="center" valign="top"> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.awesomestories.com/includes/ad_format.js"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </body>