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 little ...
New Haven welcomed the historic Amistad schooner home Wednesday — with a modern-day civil rights case on its mind. The ship — a recreation of the original Spanish schooner that brought captives from ...
One of the nation’s oldest and most significant archives of Black history, the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans has collected and cared for millions of historical documents and artifacts over ...
East End historians have unveiled a marker commemorating the local connection to the schooner La Amistad, 184 years after the U.S. Navy seized the ship off Montauk with illegally enslaved Africans ...
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Lisa Moore is the Head of Research Services at the Amistad Research Center and says, “history is such a story! It’s all of our stories. It’s not just certain stories that have ...
An effort is underway to resurrect the state’s Amistad Commission, which was created by law 18 years ago with a promise to invigorate the teaching of Black history in schools to correct false, dated ...
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