On March 9, 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, with one dissent, that the enslaved Africans who seized control of the ...

Spielberg takes some liberties with the characterization ( in real life, Baldwin was neither young nor inexperienced at the ...

But historians know very little about the individuals aboard these slave ships ... in the 1860s. The Amistad rebels inspired other captives: In 1841, as the American ship Creole traveled between ...

The verdict became a landmark case for litigating the illegal slave trade, which continued to expand over the next two decades until finally ending in the 1860s. The Amistad rebels inspired other ...