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United States v. The Amistad

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On March 9, 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case, United States v. The Amistad, that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them across the Atlantic Ocean had been taken into slavery illegally. Abolitionists returned the 35 men and boys and three girls to Africa.

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