HARTFORD (CN) - A Superior Court judge on Thursday approved Connecticut's application for receivership of Amistad America, the group that manages a replica of the two-masted schooner taken over by ...
William H. Townsend’s pencil sketches of the Amistad captives portray people full of character, who when robbed of their freedom, fought to regain it. The 43 captives’ arrival in New Haven in ...
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 ...