Word: amistad
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...trail and carried him off to be sold to a Spanish slaver. From the Spanish barracoons he was shipped to Cuba, and there sold with 48 other Negroes, many from his own tribe, to a Señor Ruiz. Ruiz loaded his human goods aboard a schooner named Amistad (Friendship), Captain Ferrer commanding; later a Señor Montes took passage. On June 27, 1839, the schooner weighed anchor and headed eastward along the coast of Cuba...
Most readers will find much of the strictly scientific exposition difficult where not unintelligible, some of the flights into pure metaphysical speculation farfetched, perfervid. But there are passages of rare poetic storytelling quality, as in the chapter on "The Amistad Mutiny," which recreates a remarkable bit of illicit slave-trade history, in which Gibbs's father, along with the aged but still eloquent John Quincy Adams, played a leading role...
...newly completed Savery Library at Talladega (Ala.) College. Painted in broad, Rivera-like brush strokes and crowded with writhing figures of whites and Negroes, these murals record two historical subjects associated with the story of the U.S. Negro: 1) the history of the 1839 mutiny on the slave ship Amistad, the subsequent trial of the Negro mutineers in New Haven, Conn, and the repatriation of the ship's slave cargo to Africa; 2) the history of the development of Talladega College itself, from its founding in an abandoned Civil War prison in 1867 by the American Missionary Association...