Mystic Seaport
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Mystic Seaport Museum is a maritime museum in Mystic, Connecticut, and the largest in the United States. Its 19-acre site holds a collection of ships and boats and a re-creation of a 19th-century seap
View from the Mystic River Estuary
Street in Mystic Seaport, masts of Charles W. Morgan in background
Scale model of Mystic, Connecticut as it was around 1870
Children learning to sail in JY15s and Dyer Dhows
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
Mystic Seaport
…tools and techniques are used to preserve the museum's collection of historic vessels, including the Charles W. Morgan. A replica of the slave ship La Amistad was constructed in the shipyard and launched in 2000. Amistad departed New Haven on June 21, 2007, on a 14,000-mile transatlantic voyage to Great…
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