Amistad was a ship that carried slaves to the US. According to the owners of the ship, they came from Cuba. They had actually come from Africa where it was illegal to get slaves from. There was a trial to decide where the slaves on that ship came from, and there were different people who thought different things about the situation back then. Some people liked slavery, some hated it, and some avoided the situation …showed first 75 words of 588 total…

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