Answer: 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 slaves by that time, the transatlantic slave trade continued illegally, and Havana was an important slave trading hub.
The Spanish plantation owners Pedro Montes and Jose Ruiz purchased 53 of the African captives as slaves, including 49 adult males and four children, three of them girls. On June 28, Montes and Ruiz and the 53 Africans set sail from Havana on the Amistad (Spanish for “friendship”) for Puerto Principe (nCharged 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 government.
While President Martin Van Buren sought to extradite the Africans to Cuba to pacify Spain, a group of abolitionists in the North, led by Lewis Tappan, Rev. Joshua Leavitt and Rev. Simeon Jocelyn, raised money for their legal defense, arguing that they had been illegally captured and imported as slaves.
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I believe it is a demand deposit:
A demand deposit is funds held in an account from which deposited funds can be withdrawn at any time from the depository institution, such as a checking or savings account, accessible by a teller, ATM or online banking.
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Although the 1800's saw the path to more rights for slaves and more action on the subject, rebellions and etc, there were still many slaves and little rights for them. Right before the Civil war, few northern colonies still had slaves, and when it did start, slavery was abolished. This didn't stop discrimination and a lack of rights on African Americans, however. It only got worse in the mid 1800's. when the Ku Klux Klan started to raid African Americans. Life was rash and hard, and nothing was going well. By the end of the 1800's, most African Americans started to move north to Canada at the brink of the first World War.