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Enslaved Africans on the Cuban schooner Amistad, led by Joseph Cinque revolt against the Spanish officers and crew who were their captors and gained control of the ship near the coast of Cuba. They were being transported to a sugar plantation at Puerto Principe, Cuba after been captured In February of 1839 by Portuguese slave hunters from Sierra Leone.
They had been captured In February of 1839 when Portuguese slave hunters abducted a large group of Africans from Sierra Leone and shipped them to Havana, Cuba. Eventually the mutineers were captured and tried in the U.S. Courts. Where the U.S. Supreme Court render a decision to freed them in 1841. The case had important political and legal repercussions in the American abolition movement. More
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