On Thursday, June 29, 1820, at 3:00 P.M., nineteen years before the “Amistad” incident, 283 African slaves (two dead and 281 were in chains) were aboard a slave vessel named “The Antelope”, when they were recaptured by the United States Treasury cutter “Dallas”, under the command of John Jackson.

The seizure occurred between Amelia Island and the Florida Coast. After about 2,576 days of captivity and legal battle in the United States, 120 Africans died, 2 were missing, 39 were enslaved in the United States (the 39 included 36 men, one woman, and two boys), and 120 Africans of the Antelope, (there were 22 additional recaptured Africans that were sent with this group, bringing the number to 142), were released from custody by the United States Supreme Court, and sent to Liberia on July 18, 1827.  [Source:  Black Facts]

For further reading and research, see also:

Slave Ships and Slaving (African American)

 by George Francis Dow.  [book link

]

The Slave Ship: A Human History

 by Marcus Rediker.  [book link

]

Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora

 by Stephanie E. Smallwood.  [book link

]

Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)

 by by David Eltis and David Richardson.  [book link