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  • IN "" AMISTAD RISING: A STORY OF FREEdom '' (Harcourt Brace. $16), her first book for children, NEWSWEEK culture writer Veronica Chambers recounts the true story of Joseph Cinque, the young African who led a revolt on the slave ship Amistad in 1839.

    By Our Writers 2008

  • "Amistad" is the name of type of account at Citibank (Banamex USA) that still allows their ATM cards to be used at Banamex without a usage charge, just a poor exchange rate.

    Citibank/Banamex ATM Charges 2008

  • Amistad is the hottest bass lake in Texas right now, both for numbers and for size of bass.

    Bass on the Border Tim Romano 2007

  • Going to do more interviews on the plane, Richard Branson is flying with us, as is Djimon Hounsou, who was in Amistad, Jamie Drummond who runs DATA, but loooks awful familiar, and I hear that Natalie Imbruglia (sp?) is flying with us from London to Edinburgh.

    07/03/2005 2005

  • In the month of June, 1839, a vessel, called the Amistad, Ramon

    An Account of Some of the Principal Slave Insurrections, and Others, Which Have Occurred, or Been Attempted, in the United States and Elsewhere, During the Last Two Centuries. Joshua Coffin 1828

  • The Amistad was a coaster, bound to Principe, in Cuba, distant some two or three hundred miles.

    A Visit to the United States in 1841 Joseph Sturge 1826

  • The Amistad is the 10-year-old official tall ship of the state of Connecticut and a replica of the Cuban coastal trader that sailed from Havana in 1839 with a cargo of African captives, only to become an emblem of the abolitionist movement.

    TheBostonChannel.com - News 2010

  • The Amistad is the 10-year-old official tall ship of the state of Connecticut and a replica of the Cuban coastal trader that sailed from Havana in 1839 with a cargo of African captives, only to become an emblem of the abolitionist movement.

    Local News from The Lakeland Ledger 2010

  • In Havana, Cuba, students took part from the helm of a replica of the ship Amistad, which is retracing the route of the slave trade.

    NZ On Screen 2010

  • Do they still offer the, "Amistad" (is that what it was called?) relationship-program?

    If you could choose one US-Based Bank... 2008

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