Problem
For the content of your paper:
1. Give a BRIEF overview of the film.
2. Provide some historical context/background for the people and events portrayed in the film. Connect them to the larger historical themes of the era.
3. Based on your course material (lecture, textbook, course reader), discuss the historical accuracy of the film. Your answer must be more than, "this film is historically accurate." You may also use outside sources if you wish (see below).
4. OPTIONAL: Considering when this film/series was made, do you think there was a contemporary message? If so, how does that message relate to the actual historical events?
Reference:
Foner, Eric. Give Me Liberty! An American History. 6th Edition. Volume 1. New York: WW Norton and Company, 2020. ISBN # 978-0-393-67908-3
Film: Amistad (1997): trial of the African leader of an 1839 mutiny on a slave ship.