Lewis Tappan
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Lewis Tappan was an American abolitionist who in 1841 helped to secure freedom for the enslaved Africans aboard the Amistad. He was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, into a Calvinist household.
Lewis Tappan
La Amistad
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La Amistad 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 sl
Lewis Tappan
…Lewis Tappan (May 23, 1788 – June 21, 1873) was an American abolitionist who in 1841 helped to secure freedom for the enslaved Africans aboard the Amistad. He was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, into a Calvinist household. Tappan was also one of the founders of the American Missionary Association in…
La Amistad off Culloden Point, Long Island, New York on August 26, 1839 (contemporary painting, artist unknown)
1840 engraving depicting the Amistad revolt
Freedom Schooner Amistad at Mystic Seaport in 2010
A print of Cinqué that appeared in The Sun on August 31, 1839