2014年英语四级听力的练习：VOA慢速4.16_大学英语听力

2014年英语四级听力的练习：VOA慢速4.16

　　Amistad Captives Allowed to Return to Africa

　　So, in 1841, the remaining thirty or so members of the Amistad captives got on a ship called The Gentleman and returned to West Africa. Howard Jones says the incident was the only time he knows that black people who had been brought to the new world as slaves actually made it back home.

　　And how they do it? By winning in the American court system. This was just unheard of. But the decision was basically that it doesnt matter whether you are black, white, purple, green or whatever color you are, you have been kidnapped. And so therefore you have and Joseph Story said this in his decision, which really opened the door for a lot of arguments that under the eternal principles of justice, you have the inherent right of self-defense, even if you must kill your captors.

　　Howard Jones says the Supreme Court decision also gave the abolitionists a new sense of power.

　　And the abolitionists immediately printed pamphlets, leaflets, had talks, everything they could to show that these people went free, and their implication was, this is whats going to happen to slavery itself. That this is a great victory for the black man.

　　But the Amistad case did not really change the situation in the United States for most black people. Many were the children of slaves and could not argue they had been kidnapped from Africa. And, it was still legal to trade slaves across US state borders.