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  • La Amistad
    La Amistad

    La Amistad was a 19th-century two-Mast schooner built in the United States but owned by a Spaniard living in Cuba. The ship was notable as the scene of a revolt by African captives being transported from Havana....
    , a 19th century Spanish schooner
    Schooner

    A schooner is a type of sailing ship characterized by the use of fore-and-aft rig sails on two or more mast s. Schooners were first used by the Netherlands in the 16th or 17th century, and further developed in North America from the early 18th century onwards....
     on which enslaved Africans rebelled and took control.
    • United States v. The Amistad Africans
      Amistad (1841)

      The Amistad, also known as United States v. The Amistad Africans Case citation , was a Supreme Court of the United States case resulting from the rebellion of slavery on board the Spain schooner La Amistad in 1839....
       (1841), United States Supreme Court case deciding the fate of the slaves who mutinied on the ship Amistad
    • Freedom Schooner Amistad
      La Amistad

      La Amistad was a 19th-century two-Mast schooner built in the United States but owned by a Spaniard living in Cuba. The ship was notable as the scene of a revolt by African captives being transported from Havana....
      , a recreation of the original La Amistad schooner on which slaves were transported in the case above
    • Amistad Research Center, Tulane University
      Tulane University

      Tulane University is a private university, nonsectarian research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Founded as a public medical college in 1834, the school grew into a comprehensive university and was eventually privatized under the endowments of Paul Tulane and Josephine Louise Newcomb in the late 19th century....
      , New Orleans, Louisiana, devoted to research about slavery, civil rights and African Americans
    • Amistad (film), a 1997 Steven Spielberg movie about the 19th century ship, events and Supreme Court case.
    • The 1987 historical account by Howard Jones, Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy from which the 1997 Steven Spielberg
      Steven Spielberg

      Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. Forbes magazine places Spielberg's net worth at $3.1 billion....
       movie, Amistad
      Amistad (1997 film)

      Amistad is a 1997 in film Steven Spielberg film based on the true story of a slave mutiny that took place aboard a La Amistad in 1839, and the Amistad that followed....
      , was based


  • Amistad/Amitie
    Amistad/Amitie

    L' Amitie was a three-masted, frigate of approximately 400 ton displacement in the late 18th century. The majority of records regarding the ship come from its participation in the eviction of the people who were to become the known as Cajuns....
    , an 18th century schooner that transported Acadians from France to Louisiana.
  • Amistad, New Mexico
    Amistad, New Mexico

    Amistad is a small unincorporated area in Union County, New Mexico, United States It is located about 39 miles south of Clayton, New Mexico on New Mexico State Highway 402....
    , a community in New Mexico
  • Amistad National Recreation Area
    Amistad National Recreation Area

    Amistad National Recreation Area includes the area around the Amistad Reservoir at the confluence of the Rio Grande River, the Devils River , and the Pecos River....
    , including the Amistad Reservoir, Texas.
  • Amistad Reservoir
    Amistad Reservoir

    Amistad Reservoir is a Reservoir on the Rio Grande at its confluence with the Devils River 12 miles northwest of Del Rio, Texas, Texas, USA....
    , a reservoir on the Rio Grande.
  • Amistad Gambusia
    Amistad gambusia

    The Amistad gambusia was a small fish known only to occur in Goodenough Spring, Val Verde County, Texas, a tributary of the Rio Grande. This species was eliminated in the wild when construction of the Amistad Reservoir in 1968 submerged Goodenough Spring under approximately 70 feet of water....
    , an extinct fish that lived in springs now flooded by Amistad Reservoir.
  • La Amistad International Park
    La Amistad International Park

    The La Amistad International Park, or in Spanish , formerly the La Amistad National Park, is an international peace park in Latin America, management of which is shared between Costa Rica and Panama, following a recommendation by UNESCO after the park's inclusion in the World Heritage Site list....
    , a large International Park in Panama and Costa Rica.
  • A working title for The Fray
    The Fray

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