The missing information is that illegally captured men, boys and girls were freed by the Supreme Court ruling in "The United States vs The Amistad".
These prisoners were joined aboard the Gentleman by James Covey, a British sailor and former slave who knew their language, and five white missionaries. When the hostages arrived in Freetown in January 1842, the British governor of Sierra Leone, William Fergusson, led the colony in greeting them.
This story is an excerpt from The Amistad Mutiny of 1839.
On July 2, 1839, the Amistad Mutiny occurred on the Spanish ship La Amistad. In February 1839, Portuguese slave hunters unlawfully captured 53 Africans in Sierra Leone, a British territory, with the intent of selling them in the Spanish province of Cuba.
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