The Amistad Slave Ship Revolt, 1839. The incident triggered international interest. The enslaved Africans faced charges of murder and piracy, but the US Supreme Court found in favour of the ...

In Freedom Ship, Marcus Rediker (a professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh and author, among other books, of The ...

In 1811, enslaved people along Louisiana's German Coast organized the largest slave revolt in United States history. The beginning of chattel slavery in North America birthed something else ...

The findings of an alleged slave ship off the coast of Costa Rica ... According to Danish archives, a rebellion broke out aboard the Fridericus Quartus during its voyage from Ghana to the ...