After a landmark legal battle in the United States, 35 survivors of the Amistad revolt departed from New York aboard the ship Gentleman to return to Africa. These individuals had been kidnapped from present-day Sierra Leone and sold into slavery, but they famously seized control of the slave ship La Amistad in 1839. Their case reached the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled in their favor, declaring them free persons. Their return marked a powerful moment of justice and resistance against the transatlantic slave trade.
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