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Amistad Captives Brought to Connecticut

Name: Amistad Captives Brought to Connecticut
Start: 1839-01-01
Location: New Haven, Connecticut

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Africans who seized the schooner Amistad were jailed in Connecticut; their legal fight culminated in a U.S. Supreme Court decision affirming their freedom and became a landmark antislavery case.

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