A Scene from that Affected Me the Most Amistad

The scene in the movie that affected me the most was the one where they were trying to lighten the load of the Amistad. They took what appeared to be a big rock and anchored a chain to it. They threw this rock overboard. At this point I had no idea what was going to happen, but the following scene portrayed the horror.
The men in charge of the Amistad chose fifty men and women to die, and this was not to be a quick death. They harnessed the slaves to this chain so that they too would sink to the bottom of the ocean. …