On #ThisDayinHistory 1839, Africans on the Cuban schooner Amistad rise up against their captors, killing two crewmembers and seizing control of the ship, which had been transporting them to a life of slavery on a sugar plantation in Cuba. #Amistad #USHistory

The Constitution requires senators to hold citizenship for at least nine years, and Democrats argued Revels had only recently gained citizenship with the 1866 Civil Rights Act and the 14th Amendment. histv.co/2MBD7jq

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.Anna Paquin is nominated for a #CriticsChoice Award! #ROOTS

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His name is Kunta Kinte. Watch a special presentation of #ROOTS, starting Sunday at 8/7c on HISTORY.

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Is this the wreck of the Clotilda, the last US slave ship? The one that set sail 50 years after the Transatlantic slave trade was banned? Because of a bet? #strangerthanfictionbutalsoawful histv.co/2DEQQWx

The last slave ship survivor gave an interview in the 1930s. It just surfaced. bit.ly/2HMlxv1