Can a US court declare that a group of human beings have no rights and can be enslaved or abused at will with no legal recourse? That question will soon be coming before the Supreme Court. Jeremy ...

"The Mutiny on the Amistad" (A 1939 oil on canvas painting by Hale Woodruff, in the collection of Savery Library, Talladega College, Talladega, Alabama / National Museum of African American History ...

NEW HAVEN — A Connecticut museum is marking the 175th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that granted freedom to enslaved Africans held captive aboard the ship Amistad. The story of one of ...

March 9 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, with one dissent, that the enslaved Africans who seized control of the Amistad slave ship had been illegally forced into ...

A unique document containing notes written by future President John Quincy Adams in preparation for his first case before the Supreme Court is for sale for $75,000. In 1804, Adams, then a U.S. senator ...