The landing of a ship 175 years ago that brought 78 enslaved men, women and children will be re-enacted next Wednesday.

Imagine Bermuda and The Corporation of Hamilton have partnered to observe the 175th anniversary of the landing of the Enterprize to Bermuda's shores.

The venue, Barr's Bay Park is the actual site where the ship landed.

Four actors and a representative for each of the 78 people that made up the ship's human cargo will act out the story which took place at a time of great change in the world.

After the first act at approximately 12.20 p.m. the crowd will follow the 78 representatives through Hamilton to Supreme Court #1 – along the same route that they followed 175 years ago.

At Supreme Court a re-enactment of the legal proceedings which eventually had much wider implications – such as the case of the Amistad.

The Freedom Schooner Amistad believes their mission is to tell the correct story of the Africans who revolted against their captors and fought for their freedom

Often the ship is referred to as a slave ship, something the charity strives to overcome.

The film 'Amistad' won Oscars for its portrayal of the torture 53 Africans underwent after being illegally sold and shipped across the Atlantic, bound for slavery in the US, and their fight for their freedom.

However, aspects of the film are historically incorrect, something the Friendship Schooner Amistad strives to change.

The true story of those aboard the Amistad starts in 1839 in Sierra Leone when slave hunters abducted a large group of Africans and shipped them aboard a Portuguese slave ship Tecora to Havana, Cuba, a Caribbean centre for the slave trade.

The abduction and transatlantic transportation violated all of the treaties then in existence because the Transatlantic Slave Trade was abolished by the UK in 1807 and finally by Brazil in 1839.

The 53 Africans were then purchased in Cuba by two Spanish planters and put aboard the Cuban schooner La Amistad for shipment to another Cuban port to work on a plantation. However, before the Africans were sent into slavery one man created a mutiny which started them on their path to freedom.

On July 1, 1839, the Africans led by Sengbe Pieh (also known as Joseph Cinque, the name given him by his Spanish captors) seized the ship, killed the captain and the cook, and ordered the planters to sail to Africa.

But before they could reach their destination the ship was seized off Long Island, New York, by the US ship Washington and the Africans were charged with murder.

These charges were eventually dismissed but the Africans remained in jail due to claims that they were the property of the plantation and Spain.

US President Martin Van Buren was in favour of extraditing the Africans to Cuba but abolitionists in the North opposed extradition and raised money to defend the Africans.

Former President John Quincy Adams successfully argued that the claim that the Africans were property and slaves was wrong because they had been illegally captured and transported.

The case went all the way to the Supreme Court in January 1841, which found that the Africans were indeed free people. Thirty-five of them were repatriated to their homeland thanks to funds raised by abolitionists, unfortunately 18 had died on the trip across the Atlantic or while held in the US jail.

The crew of the Freedom Schooner Amistad believe that because the original Amistad was never involved in the Transatlantic Slave Trade and was not built with the purpose of transporting slaves it is technically incorrect to name it one. It transported a variety of items and was infrequently used to transport slaves.

Instead they hope visitors will focus on the story of 53 brave Africans who fought against injustice and won.

The ship is back in Bermuda to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the Enterprize's arrival in Bermuda.

The Enterprise was blown off course transporting slaves between US states when it was forced to dock in Bermuda. Because the Island had abolished slavery in 1934, the Governor decided it was up to the slaves to decide their fate 72 chose to remain in Bermuda as free people. The Enterprize set a legal precedent which was used in the case of the Amistad Africans.

Freedom Schooner Amistad will leave the Island on February 12.