On July 2, 1839, Africans from Sierra Leone on the Cuban schooner La Amistad rose up against their captors, seizing control of the ship, which had been transporting them to a life of slavery. Here is a reading that describes how students learned about slavery and abolitionism in New York, including the Amistad Defense Committee: zinnedproject.org/posts/1415 Image: The Amistad Trial by Hale Woodruff from a mural called The Amistad Mutiny, 1939.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Jul 2014 18:26:01 +0000
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