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On June the 28th, 1839, a ship departed Havana, Cuba in route to Puerto Princepe.

Along with the crew of seven, including two slaves serving as a cabin boy and ships cook,

the vessel was also packed with cargo worth approximately $60,000 or about $1.7 million

today.

This included items ranging from wine, saddles, iron castings, mill rollers, fabric, soap, leather goods,

over 600 pounds of rice and many other foodstuffs, and most important to our story today, some 53 slaves.

Among those 53 were 49 adults recently bought by a 24-year-old man named Jose Ruiz,

with fellow Cuban plantation owner 58-year-old

Pedro's Montes purchasing four children, three girls, and one boy as well. All of these slaves,

comprising about one-third of the total value of cargo on the ship, were slated to go to work on

plantations in Puerto Principi. However, unfortunately for Ruiz and Montez, thanks to a taunting remark by the ship's cook,

their newly purchased slaves had other ideas.

What followed was a two-year bid for freedom by the surviving captives of the Amistad.

This all culminated in none other than former U.S. President, John Quincy Adams, in passion

defense of the captives before the Supreme Court.

While then current U.S. President, Martin Van Buren's side, pushed hard for their deportation

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