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How the Amistad helped America live up to its ideals | U.S. Embassy in Georgia


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The Spanish cargo schooner Amistad off the coast of Long Island, New York, in August 1839 (© The History Collection/Alamy)
The Spanish cargo schooner Amistad off the coast of Long Island, New York, in August 1839 (© The History Collection/Alamy)
Portrait of Joseph Cinque (whose real name was Sengbe Pieh), the leader of the revolt aboard the Amistad (© Interim Archives/Getty Images)
In 1839, the 
Amistad cargo schooner sailed from Havana to Puerto Principe, Cuba, with 53 Africans bound for a life of slavery on the island. But while aboard the schooner, the Africans fought for their freedom. Their battle gained them a reprieve. And soon, American abolitionists would take up their fight in U.S. courts. ....

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Michael Olenick: Nothing Godly About Racism or Fascism: Where Evangelicals Went Way Wrong


By Michael Olenick, a research fellow at INSEAD whose recent articles can be found at innowiki.org and Blue Ocean Thinking
I normally research, write, and teach about business along with the occasional consulting gig. During my regular work, I came across a pattern that has ramifications for our modern world, the genesis of evangelical support for the Republican Party and how that’s shifted over time.
Most people know the more mundane part of the story: The Kansas-Nebraska Act became law in 1854 violating the Missouri Compromise and potentially expanding slavery into new territories. The law enraged abolitionists and also more economically-focused anti-slavery northerners leading to the formation of a new political party, the Republicans. In 1857, the Supreme Court released the ....

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