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Home | News & Events | How the Amistad helped America live up to its ideals The Spanish cargo schooner Amistad off the coast of Long Island, New York, in August 1839 (© The History Collection/Alamy) The Spanish cargo schooner Amistad off the coast of Long Island, New York, in August 1839 (© The History Collection/Alamy) Portrait of Joseph Cinque (whose real name was Sengbe Pieh), the leader of the revolt aboard the Amistad (© Interim Archives/Getty Images) In 1839, the  Amistad cargo schooner sailed from Havana to Puerto Principe, Cuba, with 53 Africans bound for a life of slavery on the island. But while aboard the schooner, the Africans fought for their freedom. Their battle gained them a reprieve. And soon, American abolitionists would take up their fight in U.S. courts.