Lesson Plans: Using Film in the History Classroom
Amistad: Comparison Chart
 

Who?	Africans	Gedney	Van Buren	Spanish Government	Abolitionists	Spanish Planters
What role did they play in the trial?	defendants				financial & moral support for Africans
What was their motivation?		economic gain	political gain
What were their arguments?						property rights
What was the basis for their arguments?				Pinckney's Treaty

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