July 1839: Mutiny led by Cinque; Amistad's captain and cook killed while two crewmen escape; Africans control Amistad. July - August 1839: Amistad steered by Montes east by day ...
Cinque (Sengbe Pieh) Mende, captive, leader. The central figure in the Amistad drama -- the man known as Cinque -- comes into sharp historical focus only during the ordeal of his ...
Cinque and the Amistad mutiny are discussed in the context of the slave trade and the international efforts to suppress it in John R. Spears, "The Story of the Amistad," in The ...
This worksheet focuses on Cinque, the leader of the 1839 Amistad revolt, and draws on a variety of documentary resources to examine how he was perceived by the American ...
Who was Joseph Cinque? Cinque was from Sierra Leone. He was a rice farmer before he was captured.He was the African leader of the revolt on the slave ship Amistad in 1839.
Slave that was part of the crew of the ship Amistad, that led a revolt and killed the captain. The sailors were captured, were judged, and found innocent because they were ...