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 “Friendship” ...
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Juneteenth 2025 in Portsmouth: Amistad visit postponed, other events on track
The June 2025 visit of Amistad, a replica of the historic 19th-century schooner, has been rescheduled to 2026.
Exhibit honors Black History Month at the New Haven Museum
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — February is Black History Month: a time to celebrate Black Americans’ past, present and future. The ...
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The Vast Geographic Scope of Slavery Is Hard to Fathom. One Groundbreaking Exhibition Shows Its True Scale Around the Globe
Charcoal portraits depict six of the enslaved Africans who were aboard the Amistad, the 19th-century slaving schooner that became the center of a landmark Supreme Court case. After they were stolen ...
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The Vast Geographic Scope of Slavery Is Hard to Fathom. One Groundbreaking Exhibition Shows Its True Scale Around the Globe
They killed the captain and the cook and told the enslavers to take the ship back to Africa. Eventually, the Amistad was seized by the United States near Long Island in New York, and the enslaved ...
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Yemen’s Houthis free crew of Red Sea cargo ship after 14 months in captivity
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi movement has released the crew of a cargo ship more than a year after its fighters hijacked the vessel in the Red Sea, as part of its campaign of attacks in support of ...
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Royal Navy attack submarine warned off Russian spy ship from UK waters
A Royal Navy attack submarine surfaced close to a Russian spy ship off the UK coast in an extraordinary warning to stop spying on British undersea cables, the defence secretary has revealed.
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Russian spy ship detected off U.K. as British official warns Putin: "We know what you're doing"
British Defense Secretary John Healey told Parliament on Wednesday the Royal Navy was tracking a "Russian spy ship" that passed through U.K. waters, warning Russia's President Vladimir Putin ...
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Britain Says Russian Spy Ship Returned to U.K. Waters in Sign of Kremlin Threat
The British defense secretary told Parliament that the Yantar, which he described as a Russian spy ship, had come near Britain’s coast for the second time in a few months. By Stephen Castle and ...
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Houthis Free the Crew of a Cargo Ship They Hijacked 14 Months Ago
It was unclear what would happen to the ship. The capture of the vessel, which had been en route to India from Turkey, was one of the most audacious maritime operations by the Houthis and came at ...
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Release of ship’s crew, ‘a step in the right direction’: UN Yemen envoy
The UN Special Envoy for Yemen and the head of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) on Wednesday welcomed the release of the crew of a commercial ship held by Houthi rebels for more than a ...