This widely documented and written about revolt of Mende slaves aboard a ship from Sierra Leone to Havana, Cuba is one of the most powerful proofs that slavery was not a choice.
In July 1839, oppressed Africans on board the Spanish boat, La Amistad, assumed responsibility for the boat, executing a portion of the group and requesting the survivors to cruise the boat to Africa. The Spanish survivors who were entrusted with the boat’s route subtly moved the boat north, where it was caught off the shoreline of Long Island by U.S. authorities.
As the Mende and La Amistad were held in Connecticut, the case was taken to bureaucratic court where the proprietors of the boat and Spanish government guaranteed the slaves as property. The US had prohibited the African exchange, notwithstanding, and contended that the Mende were legitimately free. In the long run, in 1841, the Supreme Court of the United States decided for the Mende, reestablishing their opportunity.
This incredible triumph was a representative triumph for the U.S. in the development to cancel bondage.
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