In events that inspired a 1997 movie by Steven Spielberg, Africans kidnapped in Sierra Leone and illegally sold into slavery mutinied in 1839 while aboard the Amistad off the coast of Cuba. The ...

By MN Bhushi and B Maria Kumar The Amistad episode and Dr BR Ambedkar’s legacy share a striking similarity in how both represent the triumph of natural justice over other forms of justice. The Amistad ...

On this day in 1841, The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the United States v. The Amistad case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.

On This Day: Supreme Court rules in Amistad case On March 9, 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, with one dissent, that the enslaved Africans who seized control of the Amistad slave ship had been ...

In 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, with one dissent, that the enslaved Africans who seized control of the Amistad slave ship had been illegally forced into slavery and thus were free under U.S.

Rare portraits reveal the humanity of the slaves who revolted on the Amistad On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for ...

Eventually, the case made it to the U.S. Supreme Court. The court found that because the captives aboard the Amistad were free at the time of their capture in Long Island, they could not be ...

PORTSMOUTH — The Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire has announced that necessary repairs will prevent the iconic vessel Amistad from visiting as part of their Juneteenth 2025 events.

Adopted. Mr. DIXON, of Connecticut, (Rep..) addressed the Senate in opposition to the President's recommendations in regard to the Amistad claim, going into a long history of the case.

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- An El Paso County judge granted a "non-suit" in Project Amistad's guardianship case involving an 87-year-old former resident of the Gateway Hotel.