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West African captive and leader of La Amistad slave revolt in 1839

Sengbe Pieh (c. 1814 – c. 1879),^[1] also known as Joseph Cinqué or Cinquez^[2] and sometimes referred to mononymously as Cinqué, was a West African man of the Mende people^{[citation needed]} who led a revolt of many Africans on the Spanish slave ship La Amistad in July 1839.

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After the ship was taken into custody by the US Revenue-Marine, Cinqué and his fellow Africans were eventually tried for mutiny and killing officers on the ship, in a case known as United States v. The Amistad. This reached the U.S.

Supreme Court, where Cinqué and his fellow Africans were found to have rightfully defended themselves from being enslaved through the illegal Atlantic slave trade and were released. The US government did not provide any aid to the acquitted Mende People.

The United Missionary Society, a black group founded by James W.C. Pennington, h