Twenty miles off the coast of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba" id="mwpA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Cuba">Cuba</a>, 53 kidnapped Africans led by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cinqué" id="mwpQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Joseph Cinqué">Joseph Cinqué</a> mutiny and take over the slave ship <i id="mwpg"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Amistad" id="mwpw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="La Amistad">Amistad</a></i>.