NORWICH— The replica of the Amistad was welcomed in Norwich on Monday night. The 129 ft. “floating classroom” will be staying in Norwich for this week. During the week, there will be tours explaining ...

Since its inception in 2000, the Amistad — an 81-foot replica (129 feet overall) in Mystic of the original schooner that was the setting for the 1839 slave uprising that was foundational to both the ...

A floating history classroom made a special stop in Yonkers Wednesday. The replica of the historic 1839 Amistad docked at Esplanade Park, where visitors boarded the boat for free, educational tours ...

Months after federal cuts threatened the future of the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans, one of the nation’s oldest Black historical archives, the organization has raised enough money to stay ...

One hundred and eighty years after enslaved Africans revolted for their freedom off the coast of Cuba and made history, local African American elected officials set sail aboard a replica of that same ...

Here in New Haven, both are visible in an 81-foot ship named the Freedom Schooner Amistad that is home-ported at Long Wharf Pier. If you don’t see it, the ship sails around the country as a moving ...

John Warner Barber’s ‘Death of Capt. Ferrer,’ 1839. Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La ...