Amistad mutiny, (July 2, 1839), slave rebellion that took place on the slave ship Amistad near the coast of Cuba and had important political and legal repercussions in the American abolition movement.

La Amistad (pronounced [la a.misˈtað]; Spanish for Friendship) was a 19th-century two-masted schooner owned by a Spaniard living in Cuba. It became renowned in July 1839 for a slave revolt by Mende captives who had been captured and sold to European slave traders and illegally transported by a Portuguese ship from West Africa to Cuba, in ...

Oct 27, 2009 · The Amistad Case took place in 1839 when 53 illegally purchased enslaved Africans staged a successful mutiny after being kidnapped.

Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy (1987) is a history of a notable slave mutiny of 1839 and its aftermath, written by professor Howard Jones.

Aug 23, 2017 · The Amistad Mutiny occurred on the Spanish schooner La Amistad on July 2, 1839. The incident began In February 1839 when Portuguese slave hunters illegally seized 53 Africans in Sierra Leone, a British colony, whom they intended to …

Feb 9, 2010 · Early in the morning, enslaved Africans on the Cuban schooner Amistad rise up against their captors, killing two crewmembers and seizing control of the ship, which had been transporting them to a...

Jul 2, 2014 · In 1839, the captives who carried out the Amistad mutiny had no idea it would become the most famous slave ship rebellion in American history. Taken from Western Africa and shipped across the...

On July 2, 1839, 53 recently captured Africans revolted on the Spanish slave ship Amistad on its way from Havana to Puerto Príncipe, Cuba. Led by Joseph Cinqué, the Africans freed themselves and took over the ship, ordering the surviving Spaniards to take them back to Sierra Leone.

Amistad Mutiny. The Amistad mutiny was a rebellion of African captives that occurred off the northern coast of Cuba in July 1839. The mutineers had been seized in Africa, herded onto a Portuguese slave ship along with hundreds of others, and then transported illegally from the African island of Lombokor to Cuba (then a Spanish colony).

This 1838 copper token made by Gibbs Gardner & Co. was commissioned by the American Anti-Slavery Society in New York to promote the abolition of slavery. Abolitionist fervor in the United States was very strong during this time, and many advocated for …