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The Amistad Rebellion: Africans Who Won Their Freedom in Court
In 1839, fifty-three Africans aboard the Cuban schooner La Amistad rose up, killed the captain, and demanded to be sailed back to Africa. Instead, they were captured off Long Island and thrust into a legal battle that reached the U.S. Supreme Court. This episode dives into the extraordinary story of the Amistad captives—their origins in the Mende region of Sierra Leone, the brutal Middle Passage that brought them illegally to Cuba, and the courtroom drama that pitted abolitionists against the pro-slavery administration of President Martin Van Buren. We explore the key figure of Sengbe Pieh…
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