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| Poster from the film 'Amistad'. Source: Dreamworks via Wikipedia |
1) The 53 Africans who revolted aboard the ship La Amistad in January 1839, were originally kidnapped from Mendeland near Sierra Leone. Once sold into the slave trade they were transported to Cuba, a hub for the transatlantic slave trade, on board the notorious illegal Portuguese slave ship called the 'Tecora'. In Cuba they were fraudulently classified as Cuban-born slaves, and were sold to two Spanish plantation owners who put them on board the Cuban schooner La Amistad for transportation to another Cuban port near a sugar plantation.
