Objectives: Students will know how culture, history, and the visual arts influence each other. Students will recognize that the visual arts tell something about the time in history and culture. Students will understand the Amistad case and the events leading up to the Africans confinement in New Haven.
Discussion about background of the Amistad Case, pictures from The Middle Passage, map- “The Voyage of the Amistad Captives” by John O.C. McCrillis, 1989