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La Amistad (pronounced [la a.misˈtað]; Spanish for Friendship) was a 19th-century two-masted schooner owned by a Spaniard living in Cuba.It became renowned in July 1839 for a slave revolt by Mende captives who had been captured and sold to European slave traders and illegally transported by a Portuguese ship from West Africa to Cuba, in violation of European treaties against the Atlantic ...
Ángel Custodio is an outdoor sculpture by Sebastián (Enrique Carbajal), installed in Puebla, in the Mexican state of Puebla. [1] It was inaugurated on November 7, 2003, during the municipal administration of Luis Eduardo Paredes Moctezuma.
The La Amistad International Park, or in Spanish Parque Internacional La Amistad, formerly the La Amistad National Park, is a transboundary protected area in Latin America, management of which is shared between Costa Rica (Caribbean La Amistad and Pacific La Amistad Conservation Areas) and Panama, following a recommendation by UNESCO after the park's inclusion in the World Heritage Site list ...
Lewis Tappan (May 23, 1788 – June 21, 1873) was an American abolitionist who helped to secure freedom for the enslaved Africans aboard the Amistad.He was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, into a Calvinist household.
La Antorcha de la Amistad (Spanish for "The Torch of Friendship") is a monumental abstract sculpture by Mexican sculptor Sebastián, installed in Downtown San Antonio, in the U.S. state of Texas. The work was commissioned by a group of Mexican businessmen living in the United States and friends of Mexico, and presented as a gift from the ...
The Amistad Memorial in New Haven, Connecticut, is a bronze sculpture created by Ed Hamilton to recognize the events of the 1839 Amistad Affair.The affair was a kidnapping of 53 Africans and their subsequent mutiny aboard La Amistad.
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Guánica is a modern town that maintains roots and connections to a traditional past. Known as el pueblo de la amistad ('the town of friendship'), it is also occasionally referred to as el pueblo de las doce calles ('the town of the twelve streets').