Talk:La Amistad

message: This talk page concerns the ship. 
The description of the ship comes from the wikisource description in the court case. RPellessier | Talk 16:56, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The ship

message: The article needs to discuss the legal stuff.--207.233.88.250 16:49, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That's covered in the article Amistad (1841), mentioned in the "See Also" section.  I can move the link up to the text covering the incident, if you think that would work better.  scot 16:53, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I just read the article and was confused by the reference to the supreme court case in the picture caption but no mention on the text. On close examination I found a link to the "legal case" at the top and a link for more info at the bottom. I too think it deserves a sentence in the body of the text. 70.162.156.229 (talk) 02:01, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: A very brief description certainly seems reasonable, so I've added one. I also added a link in the body of the text to the court case and changed a sentence to segue a little better.  Geeman (talk) 02:13, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: legal

message: To the editor who provided the painting of the Amistad, I know little of images, but this one is just fantastic. If they have such a thing as featured images, this should be one!!--leahtwosaints (talk) 23:15, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  What a BEAUTIFUL Illustration! 

message: So what was the name of the ship owner?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.68.248.240 (talk) 23:46, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name of the owner 

message: The sections in this article are brief summaries of the events, not really worthy of merging into the article on the court case.  A short description is good (and necessary) for this article to make it a "one stop" description of the ship, so I don't think they should be merged or removed from this page.  The current method (a paragraph or two and a few links) seems like the prudent way to go. Geeman (talk) 08:31, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regarding the proposed Merges 

message: Is there any proof that the street sign is related to the subject of this page? Amistad means friendship in Spanish and such a name for a street would be common in a Spanish-speaking country. In any case the graphic does little to illustrate the topic and I believe could be removed. GS3 (talk) 18:33, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right. — Malik Shabazz  19:34, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Street sign illustration 

message: In the first paragraph this article says that the ship was built in Spain.  Later on in the article it says that it was built in the United States.  Which is right?
Plaasjaapie (talk) 07:25, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Came here to ask the same question; 3 months, no resolution. Someone, please fix it. --Golbez (talk) 17:48, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:   Where was La Amistad built? 

message: In this case, all the slave captives were Mende people, so I think they should be identified as such, not referred to generically as Africans, as in cases where nothing is known.Parkwells (talk) 13:53, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Identify African people

message: They were 53 on board the Amistad, but 36 only faced the Trial, What happened to the others? 
* Here we are: The Friend, vol 15, page 114.: "At Lomboko they were put on board the Portoguese ship Tecora, in chains, with 700 of other Africans, and taken to Havana. Here they were landed, and kept in a Baracoon [...] for ten days, when Ruiz purchased them, 49 in number. Montes also purchased the (1) boy Ka-li and 3 girls, who were brought from Africa in another ship. The whole 53 were put on board the Spanish coaster Amistad, wich cleared for Principe about 300 miles distant, where Ruiz and Montez lived [...]" ; "2 were killed in the rencontre, 7 died on board the Amistad, 8 died in New Haven, 1 was drowned in Farmington, and 35 (sic! instead of 36) survived.". Is the 700 slaves on board the Tecora correct? 
*here the say about 500-700 hundred and telling that a revolt occured also on board the Teçora; here 300 hundred, suggestions? Other secondary sources? 
* Here a biography of the Capt. Ferrer who was a Spanish from Ibiza: El capitán ibicenco del ´Amistad´. --Nicola Romani (talk) 18:12, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Numbers of slaves 

message: The French article for La Amistad alludes to the song "Petite fille" by French rap singer Booba, "ils pensent Afrique, ils pensent soleil. je pense aux nègres sur Amistad. Mais petite fille, vivre à ton époque est une époque formidable." which can be translated to "when thinking about Africa, they think sun, I think about neggros on the Amistad. But little girl, living the current time is an amazing time".
I don't know of Wikipedia's policies to refer to foreign artists, your opinion is welcome.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lboukoko (talk • contribs) 16:39, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding a mention to French artist Booba in the section "La Amistad in popular culture"? 

message: Don Pedro Montes was born in Cuba, and so was Don Jose Ruiz. I don´t wan to change without agreement, but thought it may matter Cateyed (talk) 04:46, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  The owners were Cuban, not Spanish