On This Day: Supreme Court rules in Amistad case
On March 9, 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, with one dissent, that the enslaved Africans who seized control of the ...
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Rare portraits reveal the humanity of the slaves who revolted on the Amistad
Eventually, the case made it to the U.S. Supreme Court. The court found that because the captives aboard the Amistad were free at the time of their capture in Long Island, they could not be ...
Rebellion and Justice, in This Week’s Open Thread
Find previous discussions in the Open Thread archive. Excepting the entreaty that you remain on topic, all of Slate’s usual ...