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Cinque

LC control no.n 88129820
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Personal name headingCinque
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Variant(s)Cinqué, Joseph
Pieh, Sengbe
Sengbe
Birth date1814~
Death date1879~
Place of birthMani, Mende Territory (Sierra Leone)
AffiliationAmistad (Schooner) Amistad Committee
Mende tribe
Found inBaldwin, R.S. Argument of R.S. Baldwin, of New Haven, 1841: t.p. (Cinque; African aboard the Amistad schooner when it arrived in Long Island Sound 8-26-1839 from Havana, Cuba)
Cinqué of the Amistad and the slave trade in world history, c2001 : CIP galley (Joseph Cinqué)
McKissack, P. Amistad, c2005: ECIP galley (Sengbe Pieh; lived in small village of the Mende tribe in Sierra Leone, West Africa; Sengbe)
African American National Biography, accessed December 29, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: ( Cinque; Sengbe (also spelled Singbe and Sengbeh) Pieh; slave revolt leader; born c.1814 in Mani, Mende Territory, Sierra Leone; traded as a slave in 1820 and sold to Jose Ruiz; loaded on the schooner Amistad on 28 June 1839 and set sail for Puerto Principal; organized mutiny taking control over the ship ordering their former owners Ruiz and Montes to steer the ship back to Africa; the need for food and water forced Cinque to order a landing at the next island they saw, which proved to be Long Island, New York; the mutineers were arrested for piracy and murder; Amistad Committee was created to help free the prisoners; the trial in the Circuit Court in Hartford on 17 September 1839 became a national sensation; on 9 March, after trials that had dragged on for eighteen months, the Africans were declared free to return to Africa; died c.1879)