Amistad

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"Amistad" is a Spanish noun meaning "friendship". It may refer to:

• La Amistad, a 19th-century Spanish schooner on which kidnapped Africans rebelled and took control.
  • The Amistad (1841), United States Supreme Court case deciding the fate of the captives who mutinied on the ship Amistad.
  • Freedom Schooner Amistad, a recreation of the original La Amistad schooner
  • Amistad Research Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, devoted to research about slavery, civil rights and African Americans.
  • Amistad (film), a 1997 Steven Spielberg movie about the 19th century ship, events and Supreme Court case.
  • The 1987 historical account by Howard Jones, Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy, on which the 1997 Steven Spielberg movie, Amistad, was based.

• Amistad/Amitie, an 18th century schooner that transported Acadians from France to Louisiana.
• Amistad, New Mexico, a community in New Mexico
• Amistad National Recreation Area, including the Amistad Reservoir, Texas.
• Amistad Reservoir, a reservoir on the Rio Grande near Del Rio, Texas.
• Amistad Gambusia, an extinct fish that lived in springs now flooded by Amistad Reservoir.
• La Amistad International Park, a large International Park in Panama and Costa Rica.
• A working title for The Fray song "You Found Me"

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