Robert Smalls published a newspaper, established a transportation company and served five terms in the United States Congress ...

The work of the Amistad Center is at risk after federal funding cuts wiped out 40% of the organization’s $1.5 million budget, ...

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

On March 9, 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 slavery and thus were free ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — The Hudson River Maritime Museum bid farewell to the reproduction of the slave ship Amistad, on Wednesday with a community day featuring a full slate of performances and pay ...

Often remembered as a slave ship, the Amistad “is not and was never a slave ship,” according to Paula Mann-Agnew, executive director of Discovering Amistad, the organization that owns the Amistad.

The ship, whose real-life counterpart is often misremembered as a slave ship, has been making stops in Harlem, Kingston and other cities and towns in New York as part of its 2024 Voyage for ...

Often remembered as a slave ship, the Amistad “is not and was never a slave ship,” according to Paula Mann-Agnew, executive director of Discovering Amistad, the organization that owns the Amistad.

Amistad By David Pesci Marlowe & Co., 292 pages, $22.95 It is easy to see why Steven Spielberg chose to film the story of the Africans who rebelled aboard the Spanish slave ship Amistad in 1839 ...