there be no good movie on that period in history . it show the african spirit not only a passive and accept or merely a a vehicle to be brutalise by an antagonist who be give all the line but here the african be allow to be people . we see a real portrayal of people with feeling and emotion and life . it touch on some of the aspect of mental slavery that other movie avoid and such a the biracial son of the master and a slave be indoctrinate with the church to hate his black mother and her spirituality . the scene with him gaze longingly at white madonna and child imagery in a church be attend to by a white priest tell about his wicked heathen mother really ring home . from start to finish this be definitely the black perspective on slavery . amistad be nothing to this . amistad be about a court case and do nothing to the actuality of slavery or the deep issue a sankofa do with panache and feeling .