Bay Days Freedom Festival Featuring Freedom Schooner Amistad Summer 2003.Business Editors SANDUSKY, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 24, 2003 Numerous local groups are working together to bring Freedom Schooner schooner (sk  `nər), sailing vessel, rigged fore-and-aft, with from two to seven masts. Amistad to Sandusky during Bay Days Freedom Festival 2003. It will be moored at Battery Park Marina from Sunday, August 31 until Tuesday, September 2. Hours on Sunday are 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and 2-6 p.m.; Monday the vessel is open 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and 2-5 p.m.; finally on Tuesday the Freedom Schooner Amistad is open to the public from 2-6 p.m. For more details about this event please contact the Erie County Erie County is the name of several counties in the United States:
The Sandusky visit is being sponsored by the following local organizations Randolph J. and Estelle M. Dorn Foundation, Frost-Parker Foundation, Sandusky/Erie County Community Foundation, Frohman Foundation, Wightman-Wieber Foundation, Erie County Historical Society, Erie County Visitors and Convention Bureau, Citizens Bank, George Mylander and the Lange Trust. Presenting sponsors include KeyBank, SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. and the United Church of Christ United Church of Christ, American Protestant denomination formed in 1957 by a merger of the General Council of Congregational Christian Churches (see Congregationalism) and the Evangelical and Reformed Church. . Freedom Schooner Amistad is a wooden re-creation of the 19th century Spanish cargo ship L'Amistad. It serves as a maritime ambassador for racial reconciliation and human rights education and fosters cooperation and unity among people of diverse backgrounds. Since its launch in 2000, Freedom Schooner Amistad has touched the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. Freedom Schooner Amistad was conceived, built and launched to celebrate the legacy of The Amistad Incident of 1839. The 53 Africans who were illegally kidnapped from West Africa West Africa A region of western Africa between the Sahara Desert and the Gulf of Guinea. It was largely controlled by colonial powers until the 20th century. West African adj. & n. and sold into the transatlantic slave trade slave trade Capturing, selling, and buying of slaves. Slavery has existed throughout the world from ancient times, and trading in slaves has been equally universal. Slaves were taken from the Slavs and Iranians from antiquity to the 19th century, from the sub-Saharan staged a revolt against injustice and embarked on a quest for freedom. Their human-rights struggle culminated when former President John Quincy Adams successfully argued before the United States Supreme Court United States Supreme Court: see Supreme Court, United States. on behalf of the captives and, in 1841, the 35 surviving Africans returned to Africa. The American Missionary Association, the predecessor of the United Church of Christ, raised money to pay the legal fees of the captives and to repatriate repatriate To bring home assets that are currently held in a foreign country. Domestic corporations are frequently taxed on the profits that they repatriate, a factor inducing the firms to leave overseas the profits earned there. them to Africa once their freedom was won. AMISTAD America, Inc. is a national, non-profit educational organization. Its mission is to promote reconciliation and harmony among races through ownership and operation of Freedom Schooner Amistad. Amistad visits ports nationally and internationally as an ambassador for friendship and good will, and it is a floating classroom and monument to the millions of souls that were lost or transformed as a result of the insidious Transatlantic Slave Trade. The vessel offers an important message for all Americans about our collective history and future. |
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