🖤 Today in Black History… On November 25, 1841, 35 survivors of the Amistad case finally left the United States on a ship called the Gentleman, headed back toward Sierra Leone. Just two years earlier, they had been kidnapped in West Africa, shipped illegally to Cuba, sold, and forced onto the schooner La Amistad. Their rebellion at sea and the Supreme Court case that followed exposed how the so-called “law” of slavery was built on fraud, kidnapping, and international double-talk.  The Court ru

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