IELLICOMMENT BELOW in a complete sentence or more! How did Cinque's story about the capture from Sierra Leon and the horrific voyage on the ships Tacora and Amistad to
the United States make you feel?

In August 1839, a U.S. brig came across the schooner Amistad off the coast of Long Island, New York. Aboard the Spanish ship were a group of Africans who had been captured and sold illegally as slaves in Cuba. The enslaved Africans then revolted at sea and won control of the Amistad from their captors. U.S. authorities seized the ship and imprisoned the Africans, beginning a legal and diplomatic drama that would shake the foundations of the nation’s government and bring the explosive issue of slavery to the forefront of American politics.

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