Prior to the Amistad Memorial’s unveiling in 1992, a gravestone marked “FOONE” was Connecticut’s only landmark honoring what some consider to be the first civil rights case in the United States.
Foone was one of 53 adults and children taken from the Mende region in the spring of 1839.
The kidnapped Africans were sold as slaves in Cuba and placed on a 60-foot ship called La Amistad. A few days after they set sail from Havana, a man named Cinque led an attack on the Spaniards manning the…The post The Grave of Foone appeared first on FeedBox.