New Haven welcomed the historic Amistad schooner home Wednesday — with a modern-day civil rights case on its mind. The ship — a recreation of the original Spanish schooner that brought captives from ...

The signature image of the 1839 Amistad revolt is the woodcut from a Connecticut booklet depicting its captain, Ramon Ferrer, being clubbed to death. Now almost 170 years later, a German historian ...

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 ...

Thanks to Steven Spielberg’s 1997 film, many people know the broad outlines of the Amistad story. It was one episode in the transatlantic slave trade that became well documented because it ended up in ...

On November 25, 1841, 35 former slaves returned home to West Africa, after a Supreme Court hearing, won by a former United States president, secured their freedom. Former President John Quincy Adams ...