Maritime Note
- Supreme Court rules on Amistad slave ship mutiny case (9 Mar 1807)
Amistad trial At the end of a historic case, the U.S. Supreme Court rules, with only one dissent, that the enslaved Africans who seized control of the Amistad slave ship had been illegally forced into slavery, and thus are free under American law.
In 1807, the U.S. Congress joined with Great Britain in abolishing the African slave trade, although the trading of enslaved people within the U.S. was not prohibited. Despite the international ban on the importation of enslaved Africans, Cuba continued to transport captive Africans to its sugar plantations until the 1860s, and Brazil to its coffee plantations until the 1850s.
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Musical Acts
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The Stuyvesant Sailors
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Sonny Brazil
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Tinkers Cuss
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Beaufort Pirate Invasion
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Philadelphia Ship Preservation Guild
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