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- 20 June 1837. Victoria comes to the throne after the death of William IV. Victoria became queen at the age of 18 after the death of her uncle, William IV.
- 1838. Charles Dickens' 'Oliver Twist' is published. Charles Dickens was one of the greatest Victorian novelists. 'Oliver Twist' was, like many of Dickens' other novels, originally published in serial form and brought to public attention contemporary social evils.
- 8 May 1838. People's Charter advocates social and political reform. The People's Charter advocated democratic reform on the basis of six points: one man, one vote; equal electoral districts; payment of members of parliament; elections by secret ballot; removal of property qualifications for MPs; and parliaments elected every year. '
- 1 August 1838. Slavery is abolished in the British empire. In 1834, slaves in the British empire started a period of 'apprenticeship', during which they were obliged to work without pay for their former owners.
- Illegally Captured and Sold Into Slavery
- Revolt at Sea
- The Court Battle Begins
- John Quincy Adams For The Defense
- The Verdict
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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 enslaved peoples by that time, the transatl...
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 pla...
Charged with murder and piracy, Cinque and the other Africans of the Amistad were imprisoned in New Haven. Though these criminal charges were quickly dropped, they remained in prison while the courts went about deciding their legal status, as well as the competing property claims by the officers of the Washington, Montes and Ruiz and the Spanish go...
To defend the Africans in front of the Supreme Court, Tappan and his fellow abolitionists enlisted former President John Quincy Adams, who was at the time 73 years old and a member of the House of Representatives. Adams had previously argued (and won) a case before the nation’s highest court; he was also a strong antislavery voice in Congress, havi...
On March 9, 1841, the Supreme Court ruled 7-1 to uphold the lower courts’ decisions in favor of the Africans of the Amistad. Justice Joseph Story delivered the majority opinion, writingthat “There does not seem to us to be any ground for doubt, that these negroes ought to be deemed free.” But the Court did not require the government to provide fund...
Educator Resources: The Amistad Case. National Archives. John Quincy Adams and the Amistad Case, 1841. Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. The Amistad Story. National Park Service. Joseph Cinque. Black History Now. Douglas Linder, The Amistad Trials: An Account. Famous Trials.
- Robert Peel’s Second Government. An economic recession saw the Conservative Party win a sweeping majority in 1841, bringing Sir Robert Peel back into power for his second term as Prime Minister.
- First Peacetime Income Tax. Prior to 1842, income tax in the United Kingdom had been restricted to times of war, with the last income tax expiring after the Napoleonic Wars.
- Annexation of Sind. Part of modern Pakistan, Sind became a part of British India in 1843 through military action led by Major General Charles Napier.
- Daniel O’Connell Found Guilty of Conspiracy. Daniel O’Connell, also known as “The Liberator,” was a major figure in the fight for Irish Catholic emancipation for most of his life.
Jul 2, 2014 · In 1839, the captives who carried out the Amistad mutiny had no idea it would become the most famous slave ship rebellion in American history. Taken from Western Africa and shipped across the...
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Amistad mutiny, (July 2, 1839), slave rebellion that took place on the slave ship Amistad near the coast of Cuba and had important political and legal repercussions in the American abolition movement.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Aug 23, 2017 · On November 25, 1841, the surviving Amistad captives departed from New York harbor for Sierra Leone. They were accompanied by James Covey, a British sailor and former slave who spoke their language, and five white missionaries, all sailing on the Gentleman.
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The First Opium War (Chinese : 第一次鴉片戰爭; pinyin : Dìyīcì yāpiàn zhànzhēng), also known as the Anglo-Chinese War, was a series of military engagements fought between the British Empire and the Qing dynasty of China between 1839 and 1842.
