La Amistad was a 19th-century two-masted schooner, owned by a Spaniard colonizing Cuba.
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13 Facts About La Amistad
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La Amistad was towed to New London, Connecticut, and those remaining on the ship were arrested.
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La Amistad was a 19th-century two-masted schooner of about 120 feet .
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Strictly speaking, La Amistad was not a typical slave ship, as it was not designed like others to traffic massive numbers of enslaved Africans, nor did it engage in the Middle Passage of Africans to the Americas.
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The crew of La Amistad, lacking purpose-built slave quarters, placed half the captives in the main hold and the other half on deck.
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La Amistad Memorial stands in front of New Haven City Hall and County Courthouse in New Haven, Connecticut, where many of the events related to the affair in the United States occurred.
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Between 1998 and 2000, artisans at Mystic Seaport, Mystic, Connecticut, built a replica of La Amistad, using traditional skills and construction techniques common to wooden schooners built in the 19th century, but using modern materials and engines.
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Tri-Coastal Marine, designers of "Freedom Schooner La Amistad", used modern computer technology to develop plans for the vessel.
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Freedom Schooner La Amistad has an external ballast keel made of lead and two Caterpillar diesel engines.
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In 2013 La Amistad America lost its non-profit organization status after failing to file tax returns for three years and amid concern of the accountability for public funding from the state of Connecticut.
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La Amistad was later put into liquidation, and in November 2015 a new non-profit, Discovering Amistad Inc, purchased the ship from the receiver.
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La Amistad has now been restored to educational and promotional activity in New Haven, Connecticut.
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