Marqu – or Margru – was one of the three young girls who were aboard the Amistad. In her portrait, she gently smiles – a ...

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 ... in the case, was stolen and ...

Eventually, the Amistad was seized by the United States near Long Island in New York, and the enslaved Africans were imprisoned in Connecticut, where they would go on to win a Supreme Court trial ...

The June 2025 visit of Amistad, a replica of the historic 19th-century schooner, has been rescheduled to 2026.

The National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum in Peterboro announces its fifth year of Black History Matters with the 2025 ...

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 ...

C harcoal portraits depict six of the enslaved Africans who were aboard the Amistad, the 19th-century slaving schooner that became the center of a landmark Supreme Court case.After they were ...