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 ...

Ashia Vaughan, standing with dozens of other children on a dock in Baltimore City, said she understood the historical significance of the boat anchored before her, a replica of the storied ship ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — In the wake of federal ...

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 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archives of Black history, the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans has collected and cared for millions of historical documents and artifacts over ...