PEOPLE who have seen producer Steven Spielberg’s gripping film “Amistad,” about an infamous slave-ship mutiny, know that the U.S. Supreme Court released the African captives in 1841 even ...

Discover Amistad educator Heidi Slaney shows students how to use a compass aboard a reproduction of the Amistad slave ship docked at Harbor Point in Stamford, Conn. Monday, May 9, 2022.

MYSTIC, Conn. (WTNH) – The Amistad was never meant to be a slave ship. However, in 1839 off the coast of Cuba, that’s what it became. “Slaves end up on this boat by some owners that were a ...

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.

The scene is a packed Connecticut courtroom in 1840. A trial is underway for the African slaves who seized the slave ship Amistad and killed and beheaded its captain. At center stage stands their ...

A U.S. replica of the 19th century Cuban slave ship Amistad glided into the millpond-calm waters of Havana Bay and docked Thursday, a reminder of the countries' intertwined past and perhaps a ...

Capt. Bob Glover stood on the dock at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut at nightfall on a cold March day and watched as director Steven Spielberg filmed Africans disembarking from the slave ship Amistad.

Outside the replica of slave ship Amistad, Gov. Lamont signs Juneteenth bill by Mark Pazniokas June 10, 2022 @ 3:12 pm Updated June 17, 2022 @ 3:54 pm.

In this Dec. 9, 2007 file photo shows the Freedom Schooner Amistad, a near-replica of the ship that sparked a 19th century slave revolt, as it sails into port in central Freetown, Sierra Leone ...

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.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A historically black college in Alabama is unveiling a new home for murals that depict a famous revolt by African captives aboard a slave-trading ship more than 180 years ago.