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In 1839, fifty-three illegally purchased African slaves from Cuba were transported on the ship named the Amistad
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The wild journey of illegally bought slaves going from near death to being sent home after being in the supreme court.
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Early in the morning the slaves free themselves from their shackles and fight their captors with machetes.
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The Amistad is spotted half a mile off the shore of Long Island, New York.
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In Washington a spanish minister demands that the slaves of the Amistad are to be sent back to Cuba to be tried for murder of their captors.
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In a Hartford Connecticut Court the slaves from the Amistad are tried and found to be illegaly bought and to be set free. All were given freedom to return to Africa except for one who was sent back to his owners.
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Van Buren was afraid of losing ruling power over the case and took the slaves to the Supreme Court to try and prove them guilty and have them sent to jail.
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Tappan got a ship and missionaries to accompnay the slaves on their journey back to Africa.
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President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation that frees all slaves in the south.
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The newly made 14th Amendment now gives African Americans citizenship.
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Joseph Cinque travels back to mission almost dead and dies a Christian.
