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document.write('<p style=\"text-align: left; padding: 0px 10px; margin: 0px 0px 10px\"><em><strong>1841</strong></em> - At the end of a historic case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, with only one dissent, that the African slaves who seized control of the Amistad slave ship had been illegally forced into slavery and thus were free under U.S. law.</p>');
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