(The Conversation) – On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” – while they were being shipped to a pl ...
On March 9, 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, with one dissent, that the enslaved Africans who seized control of the ...
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