-?) leads 37 African slaves in a revolt aboard the Amistad slave ship, killing the captain and taking control of the ship. The ship is later recaptured by the U.S. The matter is tried in the Supreme Court, where it is ordered that the slaves be returned to Africa and freed.
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La Amistad (Spanish: "Friendship") was a ship notable as the scene of a revolt by African captives being transported from Havana to another Cuban port. It was a 19th-century two-masted schooner bui...
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The Amistad , also known as United States v. Libellants and Claimants of the Schooner Amistad , 40 U.S. (15 Pet.) 518 (1841), was a United States Supreme Court case resulting from the rebelli...
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Amistad Rebellion was a revolt in 1839 by black slaves against Spaniards who had bought them. The rebellion took place on a ship called La Amistad. A young man whom slave traders named Joseph Cinque, a member of the Mende people of what is now Sierra Leone, led the uprising.
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Freedom Schooner Amistad, Connecticut's Flagship and Tall Ship Ambassador confronting the slavery past around Atlantic Ocean. Retraced in 2007-2008 Atlantic Slave Trade triangle in Bicentennial of Abolition of Slave Trade Acts in UK and USA. ... Amistad Revolt of 1839 History and Legacy ... What To The Slave; Is 4th of July?
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Learn what happened on This Day in History at History.com. ... On August 26, the USS Washington, a U.S. Navy brig, seized the Amistad off the coast of Long Island and escorted it to New London, Connecticut. Ruiz and Montes were freed, and the Africans were imprisoned pending an investigation of the Amistad revolt.
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Since the release of Steven Spielberg's movie, "AMISTAD," an immense interest in slavery and the slave trade has been unleashed. Accompanying this curiosity are questions raised by the movie, namely, the ethnicity of the Africans and the divisive question of culpability.
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The Amistad revolt ... However, three days into the journey, a 25-year-old slave named Sengbe Pieh (or "Cinque" to his Spanish captors) broke out of his shackles and released the other Africans. The slaves then revolted, killing most of the crew of the Amistad, including her cook and captain.
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Clement, Michael R. "I Saw Three Ships...." Sea History 4 (July 1976): 14-6. Cohn, Michael, and Platzer, Michael. Black Men of the Sea. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1978. ... Kromer, Helen. The Amistad Revolt 1839: The Slave Uprising aboard the Spanish Schooner .
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A large-scale slave revolt breaks out in Jamaica -- brutally repressed. 1833; Great Britain passes the Abolition of Slavery Act, ... The Amistad is seized off Long Island and taken to New London. (Fall) U.S. federal officers arrest several vessel owners in Baltimore implicated by the British as slave traders.
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