In 1839, fifty three of the Mendi people of Sierra Leone, Africa, were kidnapped and put aboard a Portugese slave ship on its way to Havana, Cuba. Their plight is the focus of the award-winning film, Amistad, produced by Steven Spielberg. In an uprising that took place on July 1,1839, the kidnapped Mendi people fought back and overtook their captors. Their subsequent capture and trial prompted then former President John Quincy Adams to defend the Mendi against being held as slaves. At the conclu

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