The Supreme Court, of the federal united States, decides the Amistad, freeing African prisoners of war who had been kidnapped into slavery.

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Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 115.

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