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Amistad is a Spanish word meaning Friendship. It can refer to the following:

. (Spanish: friendship) was a Spanish merchant ship on which a rebellion by the African slaves it was carrying broke out in 1839 when the schooner was traveling along the coast of Cuba. ... La Amistad (Spanish: Friendship) was a 19th century Spanish two-masted schooner of about 120 tons. ... Amistad (Spanish for friendship) is a 1997 Steven Spielberg film based on a slave mutiny that took place aboard a ship of the same name in 1839, and the legal activity that followed. ... Amistad National Recreation Area provides public boating, watersports, and camping activities at the Amistad Reservoir on the Rio Grande River. ... Of course it can get quite misty in a cloud forest Photograph by Dirk van der Made 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 (Caribbean La Amistad... Image File history File links Disambig_gray. ...


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The Amistad (1841) (13438 words)
The case was argued, for the United States, by Gilpin, Attorney- General; and by Baldwin and Adams, for the appellees; Jones, on the part of Lieutenant Gedney and others, of the United States brig Washington, was not required by the court to argue the claims to salvage.
In the case of The Antelope, 10 Wheat.
In the one case, it is the execution of a law, by an executive officer, through the medium or in connection with the courts; in the other case, it is the execution of a treaty in a similar manner.
Amistad (case) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1704 words)
La Amistad (Spanish: friendship) was a Spanish merchant ship on which a rebellion by the African slaves it was carrying broke out in 1839 when the schooner was traveling along the coast of Cuba.
A case before the Circuit Court in Hartford, Connecticut, was filed in September 1839, alleging mutiny and murder.
The United States faced an incident similar to the Amistad case in the Creole case of 1841.
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