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''La Amistad'' (; Spanish for ''Friendship'') was a 19th-century two-masted schooner built in the US but owned by a Spaniard living in Cuba. It became renowned in July 1839 as the site of a slave revolt by Mende captives, who had been enslaved in Sierra Leone, and were being transported for sale between Havana, Cuba, and other Caribbean islands.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title=Teaching With Documents:The ''Amistad'' Case )〕 The African captives took control of the ship in July 1839, killing some of the crew and ordering the survivors to sail the ship to Africa. The Spanish survivors secretly maneuvered the ship north and ''La Amistad'' was captured off the coast of Long Island by the brig .〔Between 1838 and 1848, the Washington was transferred from the United States Revenue Cutter Service to the US Navy, see: Howard I. Chapelle, "The history of the American sailing navy", Norton / Bonanza Books New York 1949, ISBN 0-517-00487-9〕 The Mende and ''La Amistad'' were interned in Connecticut while federal court proceedings were undertaken for their disposition. The owners of the ship and Spanish government claimed the slaves as property; but the US had banned the African trade and argued that the Mende were legally free. Because of issues of ownership and jurisdiction, the case gained international attention. Known as ''United States v. The Amistad'' (1841), the case was finally decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in favor of the Mende, restoring their freedom. It became a symbol in the United States in the movement to abolish slavery. ==The ship== ''La Amistad'' was a 19th-century two-masted schooner of about . Built in the United States, ''La Amistad'' was originally named ''Friendship.'' It was renamed in Spanish after being purchased by a Spaniard. Strictly speaking, ''La Amistad'' was not a slave ship; it was not designed to transport large cargoes of slaves, nor did it engage in the Middle Passage of Africans to the Americas. The crew of ''La Amistad'', lacking purpose-built slave quarters, placed half the captives in the main hold, and the other half on deck. The captives were relatively free to move about, which aided their revolt and commandeering of the vessel. ''La Amistad'' engaged in the shorter, coastwise trade around Cuba and in the Caribbean. The primary cargo carried by ''La Amistad'' was sugar-industry products, and its normal route ran from Havana to its home port of Guanaja, on an island off Honduras. The ship also carried a limited number of passengers and, on occasion, slaves being transported for delivery or sale. The Mende captives who revolted while aboard ''La Amistad'' had been illegally transported from Africa to Havana, Cuba aboard the larger slave ship ''Tecora''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「La Amistad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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