Re-creating history: The <i>Freedom Schooner Amistad</i> and the <i>Spirit of Bermuda</i> were in the Great Sound yesterday to re-enact a scene from a famous painting by Deryk Foster entitled Rivalry off the West End. The painting depicts the Bermuda built RN <i>Pickle III</i>, a Baltimore clipper, and a Bermuda sloop. After the abolishment of the slave trade by the United Kingdom in 1807 the United States sold many former slave-trading ships to countries that were still engaged in the trade like Portugal and Spain, and it became a boat race between the slavers and the Royal Navy slave patrol.<font color="#72859e"><i>Photo by Mark Tatem</i></font>

Derky Foster painting