The Georgian house was built in 1832 by John Treadwell Norton on land he inherited from his grandfather, former Connecticut ...

The work of the Amistad Center is at risk after federal funding cuts wiped out 40% of the organization’s $1.5 million budget, according to executive director Kathy Hambrick. Last week, the center was ...

On July 2, 1964, the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law with the signature of President Lyndon B. Johnson.

They also have historical documents related to the slave ship Amistad, the archive’s namesake. A group of Africans who had been kidnapped from Sierra Leone to be sold into slavery overthrew the ...

1960 Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Defending champion Maria Bueno of Brazil beats South Africa’s Sandra Reynolds 8-6, 6-0.

John Quincy Adams exemplified the courage and commitment to our founding ideals that made an end to slavery possible.

JUNE 28 1839—Cinque (original name Sengh­be), after being kidnapped and sold into slavery, is placed on the Spanish slave ship Amistad.

Last American slave ship is discovered in Alabama The schooner Clotilda smuggled African captives into the U.S. in 1860, more than 50 years after importing slaves was outlawed.