Amistad

:08:24

My light! Light...?

:08:27

Light the lamp, Mr Baldwin.

:08:29

I'm trying.

:08:37

Mr Joadson!

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Here.

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Are you all right?

:08:51

Yes.

:09:31

These papers - and I shall
ask you to examine them -

:09:35

are portions of a ship's manifest I
retrieved from the Amistad yesterday.

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At first glance, they may appear
to bolster the prosecution's case.

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You see, they list cargo.

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Cargo bearing the very Spanish names
Messrs Ruiz and Montes

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insist represent my clients,

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hand-scrawled in the margins.

:09:58

But no, this is not the manifest
of the Amistad at all. Look.