By Kate McMahon, Smithsonian Institution,The Conversation On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” – while they were being shipped to a plantation in Puerto Príncipe, Cuba. Kidnapped and trafficked from modern-day Sierra Leone to Havana on a larger vessel, they had […]
