On March 9, 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, with one dissent, that the enslaved Africans who seized control of the ...

and the amistad case is a perfect example of that. CAPTURING A SLAVE SHIP WAS VERY HARD TO DO. HUNDREDS UPON HUNDREDS IF NOT THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HAD TRIED TO DO THAT, AND THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY ...

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 ...

The case of the Amistad has not been brought forward in the Senate with exclusive reference to its merits. There has always been, it is true, a strong desire on the part of Southern statesmen that ...

John Quincy Adams' last Supreme Court appearance: the Amistad case. Thirty-seven years after the Head and Amory case, Adams stood before the Supreme Court for the last time.

An 1841 U.S. Supreme Court decision over a slave ship is being invoked by a Canadian extradited from Hungary on charges that he tried to help a man convicted in ...

The Amistad Research Center, a historical archive with millions of documents, was gutted after federal cuts led to a 40% loss of their budget and layoffs of half of the staff.

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.