Title: Well, I liked it anyway...
Product review: The staff reviewer for Amazon sure hated this movie, but I enjoyed it as a courtroom drama, based on a true case, from the early years of the USA. The slave defendants were serious underdogs in this battle, after having seized the ship which was bringing them to the New World and a new, unwanted life of misery. The case challenged America's fresh ideas as embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution: in a country which recently fought for the freedom of its own white citizens, yet allowed Negro slavery, could Negroes themselves fight for freedom before becoming owned by U.S. citizens? This is no masterpiece a viewer will want to enjoy again and again, but it is no waste of two hours on a snowy evening either. It engages heart and mind in a few profound political and religious questions.
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