Amistad

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• Movie Goof (revealing mistake): The Tecora is shown under sail making good forward speed, despite the fact that her main sail is back winded.
• Movie Goof (continuity error): At the bonfire, Cinque is wearing a dark coat when he is given the bad news about a new trial. When the camera angle changes and he walks toward the fire, he has on only a white shirt.
• Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): As the letter to Adams asking for his help before the Supreme Court is read, the letter states that 7 of the 9 Justices were Southern slave owners. Only 5 of the 9 Justices on the Court at the time were from the South. Justices Story, McLean, Thompson, and Baldwin were natives of the North.
• Theodore Joadson (Morgan Freeman's character) is a fictional creation. In real life, it was Josiah Willard Gibbs (played by Austin Pendleton), a Yale professor of linguistics, who discovered James Covey, the Mende sailor who served as a translator for the Amistad captives. As depicted in the film, Gibbs learned to count to ten in Mende, and wandered around the docks of New York repeating the numbers, until Covey heard and recognized his own language and spoke to the professor.