Illustration: pencil drawing of head-and-shoulders of Kimbo, African slave aboard the ship Amistad. Portrait by William H. Townsend, "Sketches of the Amistad captives." Credit: the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University; Wikimedia Commons.

U.S. Supreme Court Frees ‘Amistad’ Slaves

By Tony Pettinato on March 9, 2017

An article about the 9 March 1841 Supreme Court decision that freed the African petitioners in the famous Amistad case, a slave revolt led by Joseph Cinqué... (Read More)

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