Joseph Cinqué
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Sengbe Pieh, also known as Joseph Cinqué or Cinquez and sometimes referred to mononymously as Cinqué, was a West African man of the Mende people who led a revolt of many Africans on the Spanish slave
Cinqué in 1840
A print of Cinqué that appeared in the New York Sun on August 31, 1839
La Amistad
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La Amistad was a 19th-century two-masted schooner owned by a Spaniard living in Cuba. It became renowned in July 1839 for a slave revolt by Mende captives who had been captured and sold to European sl
Joseph Cinqué
…sometimes referred to mononymously as Cinqué, was a West African man of the Mende people who led a revolt of many Africans on the Spanish slave ship La Amistad in July 1839. After the ship was taken into custody by the US Revenue-Marine, Cinqué and his fellow Africans were eventually tried for mutiny and killing…
La Amistad off Culloden Point, Long Island, New York on August 26, 1839 (contemporary painting, artist unknown)
1840 engraving depicting the Amistad revolt
Freedom Schooner Amistad at Mystic Seaport in 2010