Amistad is set in the late 1830s in an America in which the anti-slavery cause is beginning to gather pace. A group of Africans is taken from their homes in West Africa and put on a slave ship ...
March 9 (UPI) --On this date in history: 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 ...
March 9 (UPI) --On this date in history: 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 ...