Thirty-five Africans survived the mutiny aboard the Amistad, where they had been imprisoned as slaves

CREDIT: Barber, John W., compiler. "A History of the Amistad Captives: Being a Circumstantial Account of the Capture of the Spanish Schooner Amistad..." New Haven, Ct.: E.L. & J.W. Barber, 1840. African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, Library of Congress.