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Amistad

Vanessa Breslow Professor Dublin
11/17/99 History 103-3

L'Amistad

The Amistad, ironically a ship that means "friendship," was the setting of one of the most historical slave revolts led by black Africans in 1839. This revolt gained considerable attention from the American population, the media and well as other international interests. It was the black insurrection on board the Amistad that ignited the underlying issues of politics, slavery, sectionalism, religion, trade rights, and anti-British sentiment that already plagued the nation at the time of the Amistad incident. The controversy drew the entire world into the conflict over human and property rights, an issue that divided our nation and would eventually catapult it into war over the relationship of race and slavery to liberty.
Treaties and Laws in the 1800's sought to further slavery regulation by making it legal, but prohibiting the further importation of slaves. Great Britain banned slavery......


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