Cuffy
Male, Deceased Person
– 1763
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Who was Cuffy?
Cuffy, or Kofi, was an Akan person who was captured in his native West Africa and sold into slavery to work in the plantations of the Dutch colony of Berbice in present-day Guyana. He became famous because in 1763 he led a revolt of more than 2,500 slaves against the colony regime. He is also a national hero in Guyana.
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