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 ...
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 ...