The Amistad Revolt
In 1839 there was a slave rebellion of 53 Mendean men, women and children fromthe West coast of Africa where they had been kidnapped and then illegally transported to Cuba. They were placed aboard a schooner, Amistad, for transshipment to Cuban sugar plantations. The captives seized the vessel and sought to sail to Africa. Instead the ship was sailed, by two Cubans Ruiz and Montes which the Mendeans kept alive to sail the ship, up the coast of the United States. Amistad sailed along the United States coast until it was stopped by the US Washington off Montauk Point, NY. The ensuing trial in New Haven, Connecticut, epitomized the clash between freedom and slavery in the United States. The case was appealed all the way to the Supreme Court where former President John Quincy Adams argued for the Africans freedom. They won their liberty and eventually returned to their homes in Africa (Hunt 1971, 3-6). Our present American History textbook doesn't include the Amistad Revolt. The Amistad Revolt should be included in future editions of American History textbook because the Amistad Revolt is an inspirational story, effect both blacks and whites, and changed the course of American
cruelties of the slave trade form the testimony of Cinque and the other captives (Lehrman Many white people realized that slavery was wrong. Now this was not the case in the the first big trial that resulted in favor of African's in the United States. The Amistad textbooks. Every American History textbook throughout the United States should include more tension between the North and the South. The Amistad Revolt changed the course
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