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People were taken from Africa to become slaves in America. In 1839, a young girl named Margru Kinson was taken to America.
She got put into a boat the Amistad. One day one of the Africans found a loose nail, and got everyone’s rope and freed every one. The Mendi people (Africans) made the captains go back to Africa so in the day the sailors steered back towards Africa but in the nighttime they would go towards America because the captains knew how to go to America by the stars. For three months they were zigzagging back and forth. Finally she got put into a jail and there she was brought some books to look at. Margru was taken to the Supreme Court and there they had a case about letting the Africans free. Former president John Quincy Adams made a 7-hour speech that freed the slaves. A couple years later, Margru and her friends were taken back to their homeland. They each got their own Christian names. Margru’s was Sarah. Margru later became a teacher.