Exactly one year after setting sail from New Haven on a trans-Atlantic journey, the Freedom Schooner Amistad returned to New Haven, amid pomp, celebration, and prayer.

“We are here not just to celebrate,” Sierra Leonean Donald George (pictured) said in a libation before a festive welcoming Long Wharf crowd Saturday, “but to remember how the 53 brave Sierra Leoneans fought with their own hands for their own freedom, but not forgetting the help of the people of Connecticut to gain their freedom.”

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