Amistad By David Pesci Marlowe & Co., 292 pages, $22.95 It is easy to see why Steven Spielberg chose to film the story of the Africans who rebelled aboard the Spanish slave ship Amistad in 1839.

An account of what it was like for some enslaved people to make the weeks-long journey by ship from the mid-Atlantic states ...

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 ...

Africans on board a slave ship in 1803 rebelled and drove their enslavers into the water right as they were arriving in Georgia. Then some of the Africans walked into the water and disappeared.

Britain outlawed the international slave trade with the Slave Trade Act of 1807, and its ships take the lead in policing the high seas, searching ships of other nations.

Rebellion and mutiny. The ships’ journey from Copenhagen to West Africa, and eventually to Costa Rica, was fraught with disaster. According to Danish archives, a rebellion broke out aboard the ...

They were packed like cargo onto the slave ship the Morovia (or the York; accounts vary). Their fate was excruciatingly obvious, and the only answer was a rebellion.