The Amistad is a fascinating slave revolt mostly because it all took place while the slaves were on the slave ship. It was organized by one man named Senbe who had the courage to fight back against the oppression being forced upon him. The Amistad was a small schooner that sailed from Havana, Cuba to the United States. All the slaves on the ship were going through an awful time, and they didn’t want to take it anymore. In order to make money some Africans started capturing other Africans to turn them in as slaves and collect their reward. White men wanted slaves that were knowledgeable about harvesting rice, so they tried finding slaves who had their own rice farms in Africa. Once they were captured they were held in barracoons, which were just small huts, until they had enough captives to send away on a slave ship (Myers 10). The ride across the sea was a rough one at best, the slaves were in agony because not only were they below deck, they were packed in like sardines, chained together, and they had no where to go to the bathroom, so by the time the trip was over they were covered in waste and could barely breath from the awful smell. The Amistad was the second ship for a group of forty-eight slaves who had just been purchased by a man named Jose Ruiz. One of the slaves on the ship was named Sengbe and he would later become the leader of the revolt on the Amistad. Again the slaves were shoved down into the small cargo hold where they could only sit hunched over and very close together for the entire time, and their legs, wrists, and necks were shackled. They only got one meal a day and one cup of water, the reason for this was that they wanted the slaves to stay strong enough to fetch good prices, and so they slaves weren’t strong enough to take over the ship. One slave had wanted more than a cup of water and so he tried to quench his thirst but he got whipped for trying to take more than he was allotted (Myers 12). Sengbe was a slave taken from his family...