Friday, Feb. 14: The Amistad Case Enslaved Africans aboard the ship Amistad revolted and were captured in U.S. waters in 1838. Their trial drew support from abolitionists in the Northeast ...

that the enslaved Africans who seized control of the Amistad slave ship had been illegally forced into slavery and thus were free under U.S. law. Some 150 years later, a copy of the Bible given to ...

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