NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WFSB) - A new exhibit at the New Haven Museum offers a fresh perspective on the Amistad revolt of 1839, which officials say led to the first human rights trial in the United States ...

"The Mutiny on the Amistad" (A 1939 oil on canvas painting by Hale Woodruff, in the collection of Savery Library, Talladega College, Talladega, Alabama / National Museum of African American History ...

In the first lecture hosted by the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Marcus Rediker, a professor of Atlantic history at the University of Pittsburgh, emphasized the importance of a “history ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A historically black college in Alabama is unveiling a new home for murals that depict a famous revolt by African captives aboard a slave-trading ship more than 180 ...

One hundred and eighty years after enslaved Africans revolted for their freedom off the coast of Cuba and made history, local African American elected officials set sail aboard a replica of that same ...

As the Amistad sailed out of Port Jefferson Harbor and into Long Island Sound Sunday, Victoria Gumbs Moore talked about how the bar association she helped found was inspired by the 1839 revolt of ...

FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2007 file photo shows the Freedom Schooner Amistad, a near-replica of the ship that sparked a 19th century slave revolt, as it sails into port in central Freetown, Sierra Leone.