A concept emerged that led to the birth of American freedom, a celestial idea that still reverberates – that all men are created equal. In July of 1839, a group of Africans illegally taken into slavery from Sierra Leone, carried out a mutiny on a Cuban ship called The Amistad. Not knowing where they were headed, the Africans landed on the shores of Long Island where they were imprisoned on charges of murder. The case eventually made it to the United States Supreme Court where

Learn the causes and effects of the American Revolution. What ironic event of American history took place on July 4th, 1826 - the 50th...