The Amistad Mutiny, a core event of the Abolitionism-movement in US History, took place on July 2nd, 1839. The event all came about in early February 1839 by a certain ship by the name of La Amistad  where some Portugese men aboard were trying to illegally seize slaves. They have been said to been captured from British colony Sierre Leona. The Portugese slave hunters were planning to sell the 53 newly taken African-Americans to Cuba. The 53 newly taken in slaves along with the 500 that were already present in the ship faced very rough conditions. After several weeks, all 53 slaves were transported to a new ship by the name of Tecora. This was yet another Portugese slave ship, but this one was heading straight towards Cuba. Once they reached their destination of Cuba, a man named Jose Ruiz bought 49 adult slaves and Pedro Montes purchased the 4 children. Both Ruiz and Montes were known as slave merchants and boarded the infamous Amistad ship planning to resell the 53 slaves for a bigger profit margin. A man by the name of Sengbe Pieh freed himself and thus the other slaves were also freed. The African American slaves then proceeded to group together and stir up an insurgence, or perhaps something better considered a mutiny. The slaves fought back for obvious self-defense reasons, killing their captors, utilizing knives from the kitchen (and in the process, killing the chef of the ship). This was especially successful because it was indeed a coup d'eat. Some of the other crewmen of the slave ship were thrown overboard, and Ruiz and Montes were both captured alive. Soon after, quite unexpectedly, the ship later crashed into a seemingly American ship, USS Washington - a US Navy Brig ship as some would call it - and at the time of this chaos, the African Americans were collectively taken from the ship and were to be sent to two consecutive court cases that determined their futures. These court cases required many primary sources, and many judgements from both sides, them being between the African American slaves and the Cuban merchants. This movement was a significant step towards the Abolitionist direction, primarily due to the verdict sentence of the court case later recognized as the illustrious United States v Amistad  Supreme Case. The verdict of the case is specified in great detail in the next section below.