The U.S. Supreme Court on this day in 1841 ruled that the 35 remaining survivors of a revolt at sea aboard the Spanish schooner Amistad should be freed and permitted to return to their native Sierra ...

HARTFORD (CN) - A Superior Court judge on Thursday approved Connecticut's application for receivership of Amistad America, the group that manages a replica of the two-masted schooner taken over by ...

The ruling sent down from the U.S. Supreme Court in March 1841 was a victorious one for 35 Mende Africans. They were acquitted of murder charges and had escaped the Atlantic slave trade. But what ...

March 9 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 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 ...

HARTFORD >> The Amistad captives have come alive again, thanks to a bundle of letters that went public on Wednesday. The letters, written in the 1840s by a young woman in Farmington whose family took ...