Slave Mutiny on the Amistad – Ex-President John Quincy Adams Defends Mutineers in U.S. Supreme Court
The 1840 illustration showing the captive Africans taking over the Spanish slaving vessel, L’Amistad, in 1839–the surviving blacks were eventually freed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1841.
The 1840 illustration showing the captive Africans taking over the Spanish slaving vessel, L’Amistad, in 1839–the surviving blacks were eventually freed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1841.
