The executive director said Discovering Amistad in New Haven may be forced to close without state funding after Connecticut ...

click image for close-up Interior of a Slave Ship, a woodcut illustration from the publication, A History of the Amistad Captives, reveals how hundreds of slaves could be held within a slave ship.

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 ...

The Amistad Slave Ship Revolt, 1839. The incident triggered international interest. The enslaved Africans faced charges of murder and piracy, but the US Supreme Court found in favour of the ...

The Amistad is the most famous ship rebellion in history and has major ... to be trafficked for the slave trade—to the northward journey after their revolt. Eventually caught off Long Island ...

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 into ...