https://padlet.com/ricelkona/sshrlwrvp2ldo4hw Beginning Until Now en-us 2021-02-23 16:11:49 UTC 2021-02-23 20:50:45 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/2696.png ricelkona https://padlet.com/ricelkona/sshrlwrvp2ldo4hw/wish/1232330907  Sengbe Pieh/Amistad Sengbe also known as Joseph Cinque was born in 1814 in the village of Mani in West Africa. He was a member of the Mende tribe. His father was a leader in the village. Sengbe learned from his father so that perhaps he could grow up to be a leader.]]> 2021-02-23 16:32:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ricelkona/sshrlwrvp2ldo4hw/wish/1232330907 ricelkona https://padlet.com/ricelkona/sshrlwrvp2ldo4hw/wish/1232346842  From the 16th to the 19th centuries, an estimated 12 million Africans were forcibly. shipped across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World.]]> 2021-02-23 16:34:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ricelkona/sshrlwrvp2ldo4hw/wish/1232346842 ricelkona https://padlet.com/ricelkona/sshrlwrvp2ldo4hw/wish/1232367380 Of those, at least 1.5 million are believed to have perished before even reaching shore, done in by the horrid conditions onboard. By the time of the Amistad rebellion, the United States and all other major slave destinations in North and South America had abolished the importation of slaves. ]]> 2021-02-23 16:38:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ricelkona/sshrlwrvp2ldo4hw/wish/1232367380 ricelkona https://padlet.com/ricelkona/sshrlwrvp2ldo4hw/wish/1232372146 The story of the Amistad began in February 1839, when Portuguese slave hunters abducted hundreds of Africans from Mendeland, in present-day Sierra Leone, and transported them to Cuba, then a Spanish colony. Though the United States, Britain, Spain and other European powers had abolished the importation of slaves by that time, the transatlantic slave trade continued illegally, and Havana was an important slave trading hub.]]> 2021-02-23 16:39:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ricelkona/sshrlwrvp2ldo4hw/wish/1232372146 ricelkona https://padlet.com/ricelkona/sshrlwrvp2ldo4hw/wish/1232435954  In August 26, the U.S. brig Washington found the ship while it was anchored off the tip of Long Island to get provisions. The naval officers seized the Amistad and put the Africans back in chains, escorting them to Connecticut, where they would claim salvage rights to the ship and its human cargo.]]> 2021-02-23 16:50:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ricelkona/sshrlwrvp2ldo4hw/wish/1232435954 ricelkona https://padlet.com/ricelkona/sshrlwrvp2ldo4hw/wish/1232443227 Several days into the journey, one of the Africans—Sengbe Pieh, also known as Joseph Cinque—managed to unshackle himself and his fellow captives. Armed with knives, they seized control of the Amistad, killing its Spanish captain and the ship’s cook, who had taunted the captives by telling them they would be killed and eaten when they got to the plantation.]]> 2021-02-23 16:51:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ricelkona/sshrlwrvp2ldo4hw/wish/1232443227 ricelkona https://padlet.com/ricelkona/sshrlwrvp2ldo4hw/wish/1232452574 August 26, the U.S. brig Washington found the ship while it was anchored off the tip of Long Island to get provisions. The naval officers seized the Amistad and put the Africans back in chains, escorting them to Connecticut, where they would claim salvage rights to the ship and its human cargo.]]> 2021-02-23 16:53:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ricelkona/sshrlwrvp2ldo4hw/wish/1232452574 ricelkona https://padlet.com/ricelkona/sshrlwrvp2ldo4hw/wish/1232461264 Charged with murder and piracy, Cinque and the other Africans of the Amistad were imprisoned in New Haven. While President Martin Van Buren sought to extradite the Africans to Cuba to pacify Spain, a group of abolitionists in the North, led by Lewis Tappan, Rev. Joshua Leavitt and Rev. Simeon Jocelyn, raised money for their legal defense, arguing that they had been illegally captured and imported as slaves.  The First Civil Rights Case: In January 1840, a judge in U.S. District Court in Hartford ruled that the Africans were not Spanish slaves, but had been illegally captured, and should be returned to Africa. After appealing the decision to the Circuit Court, which upheld the lower court’s decision, the U.S. attorney appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which heard the case in early 1841. On March 9, 1841, the Supreme Court ruled 7-1 to uphold the lower courts’ decisions in favor of the Africans of the Amistad.]]> 2021-02-23 16:54:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ricelkona/sshrlwrvp2ldo4hw/wish/1232461264 ricelkona https://padlet.com/ricelkona/sshrlwrvp2ldo4hw/wish/1233691664 The fourth grade class will take us on a  field trip to explore our First Civil Rights Case.]]> 2021-02-23 20:47:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ricelkona/sshrlwrvp2ldo4hw/wish/1233691664