If they did appear in art, it was in the background as loyal servants, helpless victims or stereotypical brutes ... Marqu – or Margru – was one of the three young girls who were aboard the Amistad. In ...

If they did appear in art, it was in the background as loyal servants ... was one of the three young girls who were aboard the Amistad. In her portrait, she gently smiles – a glint of a ...

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad — Spanish for “Friendship” — while they were being shipped to a plantation in Puerto ...