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
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
A print of Cinqué that appeared in The Sun on August 31, 1839
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
La Amistad
…were transporting them on the ship to their plantations near Puerto Príncipe (modern Camagüey, Cuba). The revolt began after Sengbe Pieh (also known as Joseph Cinqué) unshackled himself and the others on the third day. They took control of the ship, killing the captain and the cook. Two Africans were also killed in…
Cinqué in 1840