Nov 25, 1841 35 Amistad survivors returned to Sierra Leone, Africa.
A thanksgiving day praise from the survivors: "Lord thank you for letting us be free from being enslaved on plantations by all those God-fearing white Christians."
You all do know the story right(it's below).
(And yes, I know this posting is inflamatory).
"1841 Mar 9, The rebel slaves who seized a Spanish slave ship, the Amistad, two years earlier were freed by the US Supreme Court despite Spanish demands for extradition. John Quincy Adams (74), former US president, defended “the Mendi people,” a group of Africans who rebelled and killed the crew aboard the slave ship Amistad, while en route to Cuba. They faced mutiny charges upon landing in New York but Adams won their acquittal before the Supreme Court. In thanks they bestowed to him an 1838 English Bible. In 1996 the Bible was stolen from the Adams National Historic Site in Quincy, Mass."What's crazy is that this article calls the slaves rebels, what else where they supposed to do? Posted by anthony at November 25, 2004 08:40 AM