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1839
Amistad Captives Brought to Connecticut
1839

Amistad Captives Brought to Connecticut

Africans who seized the schooner Amistad were jailed in Connecticut; their legal fight culminated in a U.S. Supreme Court decision affirming their …
1839
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Amistad Captives Brought to Connecticut

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.

New Haven, Connecticut, CT
Incarceration & camps Slavery & emancipation
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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.